Afua Cooper

Afua Cooper


1. Biography

2. The poems, "Africa Wailin" and "Negro Cemeteries":http://www.afuacooper.com/home_page.html

3. Scholarly works



The Search for Truth in history

1.The need to explore the true history of the peoples of the Diaspora

2.The erasing of the slave past

3.The gendered slave experience

4.The cost of captivity

The Door of (No) Return

Part 1
1. Cape Coast Castle
Link#1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKKDnSco8c
Link#2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rVzpXad7w&feature=related
Link#3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huYfueTz0j8
2. Cultural Heritage Tourism
3. Roots Tourism
4. Symbolic Possession of the Past

Part 2
1. The Price of the Ticket
1) Privilege
2) Identity
3) Expectation
4) Sense of Belonging in the World
5) Understanding the history: forgetting or remembering?

2. What's in a Name
--the word "obruni"

Part 3
What's in a Name
--the word "castle"

Part 4
Performing Memory, Performing Race, Performing Identity
1) Brightness vs. Darkness; White vs. Black
2) Dungeon vs. Gift Shop; Memory vs. Commodity
3) Representation
4) Authority
5) Authenticity

Part 5
1. Photographic Memories
1) Castle vs. Seashore; Horror vs. Beauty
2) the Door of No Return vs. the Door of Return

2. Choosing the perfect Souvenir
the Comment Books: Race, History, Politics, and Commemoration

Part 6
1. No Place Like Home
1) Physical Evidence of Heritage
2) Individual Acts of Performing Memory

(Presenter: Nina Fei Yang)