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Creole testimonies : slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838
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Creole testimonies : slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838 / Nicole N. Aljoe.
ISBN
9780230338104
0230338100
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 185 p. ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2012
Series
The new urban Atlantic
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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