Slavery as Intellectual Legacy & Cultural Memory

The long-awaited 2-volume special issue of NLO on Slavery as Intellectual Legacy and Cultural Memory is finally out.

Opening with an interview with Ron Eyerman, it features original or translated texts by Marc Buggeln, Amanda Brickell Bellows, Aage Hansen-Löve, Peter Kolchin, Orlando Patterson, Marcus Wood and so many others.

The issue also includes book reviews on (a) slavery and memory studies:

● “Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean” by Catherine Reinhardt (Berghahn Books, 2006),
● “Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory” [2006] ed. by James Oliver Horton & Lois E. Horton (U of North Carolina P, 2009),
● “Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery” by Ana Lucia Araujo (Routledge, 2014),
● “Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism” ed. by Graham M.S. Dann & A.V. Seaton (Routledge, 2002; pb. 2015),

and (b) slavery and visual studies:

● “Slavery in Art and Literature: Approaches to Trauma, Memory and Visuality” ed. by Birgit Haehnel & Melanie Ulz (Frank-Timme, 2010),
● №113:1 of Representations (U of California P, 2011).

Plus, my review on the problem of literary representations of slavery:

● “The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature” by Tim Armstrong (Cambridge UP, 2012)
● “Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture” by Lisa Woolfork (U of Illinois P, 2009)
● “Exhibiting Slavery: The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum” by Vivian Nun Halloran (U of Virginia P, 2009)
● “Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson” by Timothy J. Cox (Routledge, 2001; pb. 2014)
● “Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar: Representations of Slavery” by Abigail Ward (Manchester UP, 2011)

See NLO, №141, pp. 401–409 & №142, pp.63–77, 181–196 & 369–374.