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

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Title:

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

Author:

Aljoe, Nicole N.

ISBN:

9780230338104

Personal Author:

Aljoe, Nicole N.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Physical Description:

xii, 185 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

The new urban Atlantic

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.

Subject Term:

Slave narratives -- West Indies, British -- History and criticism.

Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History.

Creoles -- West Indies, British -- History.

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Summary

Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'.