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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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Creole testimonies : slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838 / Nicole N. Aljoe |
Édition : | 1st ed. |
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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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