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Black History – White History Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Korte, Barbara <p>Barbara Korte, Universität Freiburg, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Pirker, Eva Ulrike <p>Eva Ulrike Pirker, Universität Freiburg, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen ; Bd. 5.
- Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Media.
- Black History.
- Britain.
- Film.
- Theatre.
- Museum.
- Historiography.
- Windrush.
- Wilberforce.
- Memory Culture.
- Postcolonialism.
- British History.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Media.
- Black History.
- Britain.
- Film.
- Theatre.
- Museum.
- Historiography.
- Windrush.
- Wilberforce.
- Memory Culture.
- Postcolonialism.
- British History.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Korte/Pirker, Black History Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Editorial 2 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Note on Citations 9 Introduction 11 1. Discovering a Past for the Present 17 2. Historical Culture and Social Communication 37 3. Popular Re/Presentation of History and Its Media 47 4. Key Aims and Questions 53 1. Remembering and Forgetting Slavery 57 2. Screening Slavery and the Slave Trade before the Bicentenary 65 3. Simon Schama's Rough Crossings: From Popular History Book to Television History 81 4. The Abolition as Costume Film: Amazing Grace - Black History with a White Hero 99 5. Setting a Critical Tone: In Search of William Wilberforce 115 6. ›Doing an Anniversary‹: The Event Culture Surrounding 2007 121 7. The Impact of 2007 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in British Museums 135 8. Family Matters: Genealogy as Popular (Black) History 163 1. Screening and Staging an Arrival 183 2. Family, Sport and Period in Wondrous Oblivion 185 3. Notting Hill in a Historical Crime Serial 199 4. Migration as Heritage Drama? Small Island 207 5. Migration History as Entertainment? Trends in Contemporary British Theatre 231 6. The Windrush Story as Musical 239 Conclusion 251 Bibliography 255 Index 279
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783839419359
- 3839419352
- OCLC:
- 906185910
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