In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not

This is the first book to explore national representations of slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions span a wide geographical range,

This collection brings together local case studies of Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and abolition, including the role of individuals a

Studies the deployment of psychologically coded strategies of remembering and representing in slave narratives by women. After a discussion of psychoanalytic th