Description: The Black Atlantic is a concept developed in the 1990s to discuss the arts, culture, social relations and history of African peoples who have been dispersed by the Transatlantic Slave Trade and colonialism. This book looks at physical and other memorials which talk back to the legacy of the Transatlantic slave trade.
Brief description: Alan Rice is Professor in English and American Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire.
Review Quotes:
Alan Rice's engrossing study of the legacy of chattel slavery and the slave trade in the African Atlantic analyzes literary works, visual art, music, film, and stone monuments in order to document and champion "guerrilla memorialisation" and its power to disrupt the amnesia and repression often perpetrated by official history. This interdisciplinary project, with its wide range of reference to the enormous and growing literature on the memory of collective trauma, is an insightful and often moving critical response to the diaspora-wide search for memorials "that conserve memory without being conservative."
Arlene R. Keizer