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Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 1989, $27.25). Pp. 317. ISBN 0 299 11850 9.

theory. Kalaidjian's stated and admirable aim remains to cross and collapse disciplinary boundaries among contemporary poetics, poststructuralist theory, feminism, Afro-American studies, and cultural criticism generally. But in practice this all too frequently involves an obtrusive, reductive recognition of relations of anticipation, resemblance, or iteration between the work of contemporary American poets on the one hand, and the thought of Frankfurt School theorists such as Adorno and Benjamin, deconstructionists such as Heidegger and Derrida, and poststructuralists such as Barthes, Foucault, and Kristeva on the other. Despite such criticisms, however, Languages of Liberation remains on important contribution to studies of contemporary American cultural production and could well fulfil its author's expressed intention of generating further debate concerning the dialogical nature of socioaesthetic praxis.