Approaching Asia through the Figure of the Slave in Rayda Jacob's The Slave Book

Approaching Asia through the Figure of the Slave in Rayda Jacob's The Slave Book

ABSTRACT This essay studies how literary representations of the historical links between Asia and South Africa created through Indian Ocean slavery are produced through the use of the colonial archive in fiction as a way of positioning and expressing the author as descendant, both in a literal sense...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research in African Literatures. - Indiana University Press, 1970. - 42(2011), 3, Seite 31-45
1. Verfasser: Olaussen, Maria (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2011
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Research in African Literatures
Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences Physical sciences Arts History Business
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