Readings
Landscape and Memory: Martinican Land-People-History
Assignment
In three well developed paragraphs, provide examples of how colonialist assimilationist ideology operats within a negation of space and cultural identity. How do monuments enact cultural resistance? Conversely, how do the historical archives resist cultural identity? Conclude with your personal response.
ALERT: Use Safari as your browser rather than Firefox. Blackboard can only play videos using Safari. The video is in French, but it has English subtitles.
This short film is a media-stylo that challenges the limits of traditional scholarship. This film discusses present-day colonialism in the context of Martinique. The video is viewable if you use Safari rather than the Firefox browser.
Faden, Eric and Renee Gosson, directors. Landscape and Memory: Martinican Land-People-History. Third World Newsreel, Aug. 2003.
Landscape
Download video file: Landscape-Memory-Eng.mp4
