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• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 02 January 2012

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

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 02 January 2012

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

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
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• Release Date : 11 November 2016

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
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• Release Date : 15 April 2023

There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
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• Release Date : 05 March 2024

In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent

• Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
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• Release Date : 10 March 2020

As a result, Defending Privilege offers a counterhistory to scholarship on the novel's capacity to motivate the promulgation of human rights and champion social ascendance through the upwardly mobile realist

• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
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• Release Date : 28 November 2023

Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved Africans and their descendants throughout the Americas. The roots of so much

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 01 September 2020

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
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• Release Date : 18 June 2021

The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres

• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
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• Release Date : 04 November 2013

Drawing on narratives from Martinique by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Ina Césaire, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others, Christina Kullberg shows how these writers turn to ethnography—even as