Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce

Barbara Korte; Eva Ulrike Pirker

Published by transcript Verlag 2011

Black History - White History

Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce

Barbara Korte and Eva Ulrike Pirker

Volume 5 in the series Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839419359

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About this book

Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. »Black History - White History« assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It inquires into the terms on which the new historical programme could take hold, its sustainability and its representational politics.

Author / Editor information

Barbara Korte is professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Eva Ulrike Pirker is lecturer in English Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Editorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Note on Citations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
PART I: Between Public and Popular: Approaching a Black British History
1. Discovering a Past for the Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Historical Culture and Social Communication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Popular Re/Presentation of History and Its Media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. Key Aims and Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
PART II: The Bicentenary Effect: How the Slave Trade, Slavery and Abolition Went Public
1. Remembering and Forgetting Slavery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
2. Screening Slavery and the Slave Trade before the Bicentenary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
3. Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings: From Popular History Book to Television History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4. The Abolition as Costume Film: Amazing Grace – Black History with a White Hero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5. Setting a Critical Tone: In Search of William Wilberforce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. ›Doing an Anniversary‹: The Event Culture Surrounding 2007 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. The Impact of 2007 – Slavery and the Slave Trade in British Museums Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8. Family Matters: Genealogy as Popular (Black) History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
PART III: Keeping Post-War Migration Visible: The Windrush Story in the Twenty-First Century
1. Screening and Staging an Arrival Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
2. Family, Sport and Period in Wondrous Oblivion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
3. Notting Hill in a Historical Crime Serial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
4. Migration as Heritage Drama? Small Island Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
5. Migration History as Entertainment? Trends in Contemporary British Theatre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
6. The Windrush Story as Musical Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 284
Keywords: Black History; Britain; Film; Theatre; Museum; Historiography; Windrush; Wilberforce; Memory Culture; Postcolonialism; British History; Cultural History; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839419359