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The appendices, which include contemporary reviews of the novel, historical documents on race and inheritance in Jamaica, and examples of other women of colour in early British prose fiction, will further inspire readers to rethink issues of race, gender, class, and empire from an African woman's perspective.
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"Women of colour in eighteenth-century literature have become a 'spectral presence,' pushed into the invisibility of darkness, their voices unread or ignored. Now what has been in darkness is restored to light, as Olivia Fairfield can be heard anew. Born in Jamaica into a society in which one of her parents had enslaved the other, she is forced by law and custom to travel to the heart of colonial darkness in England itself. In a manner ‘polite yet aggressive,' she makes her voice heard." - Lise Winer, McGill University
Illustrations | Illustrations |
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Pages | 268 |
Date Published | 30 Oct 2007 |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Series | Broadview Editions |
Subject/s | Slavery & abolition of slavery   |