Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. This work focuses on representations based principally on first-hand experience or observation of slavery in the then British West Indies.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 31 mm
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978-976-640-208-2 (9789766402082)
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Karina Williamson is an Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University and Supernumerary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has taught at the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Uppsala and New Mexico. She was principal editor of The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart; editor of Marly; or A Planter's Life in Jamaica; and she has published numerous articles on English, Scottish and Caribbean subjects. Recent publications on Caribbean topics are "West Indian Georgic" in Essays in Criticism and "Reinventing Jamaican History: Roger Mais and George William Gordon" in Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana: New Perspectives in Caribbean Studies, edited by Sandra Courtman.
