Creole testimonies
Subtitle: slave narratives from the British West Indies, 1709-1838
By: Nicole N. Aljoe
Series: The new urban Atlantic
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780230338104
Subjects: Creoles; History and criticism; History; Slave narratives; Slavery
Description: This study analyzes 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 slave narrative form, Nicole Aljoe breaks new ground by reading these dictated and often fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of Creole testimony.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "So much things to say": the Creole testimonies of British West Indian slaves; title: The forms of Creole testimony: a poetics of fragmentation; title: The Creole voices of West Indian slave narratives; title: "Going to law" : legal discourse and testimony in early West Indian slave narratives; title: Zombie testimony: Creole religious discourse in West Indian slave narratives; title: Conclusion: Creole testimony and the Black Atlantic: re-mapping the early slave narrative.