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Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 (New Caribbean Studies)
Sue Thomas
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Description for Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 (New Caribbean Studies)
Hardcover. Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJW; DS; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects.
Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
New Caribbean Studies
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137441027
SKU
V9781137441027
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99-15
About Sue Thomas
Sue Thomas is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre and The Worlding of Jean Rhys and the co-author of England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction, with Ann Blake and Leela Gandhi. She has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers ... Read more
Reviews for Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 (New Caribbean Studies)
"Telling West Indian Lives shines a bright light on the creolized literary cultures - oral and scribal - that generated surprisingly varied forms of spiritual life-writing in the final decades of West Indian slavery." - B.W. Higman, Professor of History, Australian National University and University of the West Indies, Jamaica "Sue Thomas changes the landscape of Caribbean ... Read more