Cities of the Dead
Cities of the Deadis going to be one of the most important books of the decade. It will have a profound and significant impact on the areas of cultural studies, performance studies, and literary criticism and theory. It will be on the list of the dozen significant studies of race and culture in the West of the last fifity years.    --Emory Elliott University of California, RiversideThis . . . exploration of Atlantic rim performance cultures restores the centrality of memory and gesture, profession and surrogation-the invention of a modern world out of the forcible destruction of the old-to the diasporic and genocidal histories of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. . . .Roach pursues a pathbreaking version of cultural history. --Review