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This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Series editor’s foreword
List of abbreviations
Chronology
1. Contexts and intertexts
2. Caryl Phillips and the absent voices of history
3. David Dabydeen and the ethics of narration
4. Fred D’Aguiar and the memorialisation of slavery
5. Critical overview And conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index

Caryl Phillips David Dabydeen and Fred DAguiar

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719097645, 978-0719097645
      ISBN10: 0719097649

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Series editor’s foreword
      List of abbreviations
      Chronology
      1. Contexts and intertexts
      2. Caryl Phillips and the absent voices of history
      3. David Dabydeen and the ethics of narration
      4. Fred D’Aguiar and the memorialisation of slavery
      5. Critical overview And conclusion
      Notes
      Select bibliography
      Index

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