ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to unspool and examine the many interrelated traces of emotions and affects that suffuse the discursive process of narrative construction in two slavery museums in the UK. It also explains the tensions that have arisen between some aspects of affect studies and the concept of narrative-making, and suggest that need to reduce theoretical divisions between the affective and the discursive and see them as concomitant partners in the process of affective meaning-making. The chapter focuses on the conceptualise narrative-making in the museum as a process that goes beyond the purely rational, intellectual or cognitive, and elucidate how it is intertwined with affective-discursive meaning-making and constrained by affective practices and emotional regimes. The Cowper and Newton Museum has a very small staff. The London, Sugar and Slavery Gallery is located in the Museum of London Docklands, is a social history museum which commemorates the history and legacies of the ports and waterways of London.
