Title

Acting Out: Performing memory of enslavement in Ouidah, Benin Republic

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Department/School

African American Studies

Abstract

Using examples from Ouidah, Benin Republic this essay examines a few ways that the descendants of slave traders, enslaved and witnesses "act out" issues of trauma resulting from the slave-trading history, sometimes with the conscious hope of healing the physical and psychic rupture between African and African diasporic peoples; other times in a seemingly uncontrollable compulsion.

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