Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230338104)

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'.

Author: N. Aljoe
ISBN-10: 0230338100
ISBN-13: 9780230338104
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2011
Pages: 185
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d