N. Aljoe

Creole Testimonies (eBook, PDF)

Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137012807
• Artikelnr.: 44922734

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Inhaltsangabe

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'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 Creole Testimony and the Black Atlantic: Re-Mapping the Early Slave Narrative

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'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 seemingly authentic author . . . Creole Testimonies argues for the centrality of these narratives based on their collaborative nature, in which several voices, including the slave's or freed-person's, argued about black humanity and the legitimacy of slavery and based on their reflection of West Indian culture and even Caribbean topography - fragments assembled by men and women into a meaningful whole.' - John Saillant, professor of English and History, Western Michigan University