How Danish were the Danish West Indies? Language use in written sources in a multilingual colonial society

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-242
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Danish West Indies ◽  
Written Sources

Irreconcilable Differences: Urban Residences in the Danish West Indies, 1700-1900

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 129-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Chapman
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Danish West Indies

Spangenberg and Zinzendorf on Slavery in the Danish West Indies

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Petterson
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Danish West Indies

scholarly journals Waldemar Westergaard and introduction by H. Morse Stephens, The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule, 1671-1754

1917 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-437
Author(s):  
A. H. Clemmons
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Danish West Indies

scholarly journals Colonial media ecologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-112
Author(s):  
Lene Asp Frederiksen
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Field Trip ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Parallel Movement ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Danish West Indies ◽  
The 1960S

In this mixed-media essay I document a field trip to Ghana where I, so to say, travel in the footsteps of the Danish colonizers to the Gold Coast in a bid to dialogically challenge the genre of the monologizing colonial traveloguei. My methodological retracing of the slave route is inspired by Danish author Thorkild Hansen’s book trilogy Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves and Islands of Slaves from the 1960s in which he visits the former Danish West Indies and the Gold Coast (in the, at the time of his visit, still very young Ghanaian nation, which had gained its independence from Great Britain in 1957). Hansen was one of the first Danish authors to voice a strong critique of the Danish colonial past and of a neglectful historiography through his docu-fiction. I was curious to explore in a parallel movement to Hansen’s the landscape as prism and archive today. Hence, the ‘reenactment’ of the travelogue in this essay functions as an attempt to recast and refracture colonial  narratives of past and present. My own documentary audio recordings from the field trip are presented here along with methodological reflections on how to voice dialogical narratives about colonialism in new digital media.

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