Creole testimonies : slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838

"Creole Testimonies will become the standard work on West Indian slave narratives and ex-slave narratives. Aljoe accurately points out that scholars and readers have long preferred the North American ex-slave narratives, such as Frederick Douglass's, because through them shines a single se...

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Auteur principal : Aljoe Nicole N. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Creole testimonies : slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838 / Nicole N. Aljoe
Édition : 1st ed.
Publié : New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 185 p.)
Collection : The new urban Atlantic Series editor Elizabeth Fay,...
Contenu : Introduction: "So much things to say": the Creole testimonies of British West Indian slaves. The forms of Creole testimony: a poetics of fragmentation. The Creole voices of West Indian slave narratives. "Going to law" : legal discourse and testimony in early West Indian slave narratives. Zombie testimony: Creole religious discourse in West Indian slave narratives. Conclusion: Creole testimony and the Black Atlantic: re-mapping the early slave narrative
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