Advanced Seminar: West Indian Slavery in Fiction

In this seminar we shall discuss three 20^th- and 21^st-century novels set in the slave-owning society of the West Indies in the early 19^th century to see how this is presented in very different ways, as well as considering them more generally in their own right as novels.

Primary texts:
de Lisser, Herbert. The White Witch of Rosehall (1928)
Phillips, Caryl. Cambridge (1991)
Levy, Andrea. The Long Song (2010)

Recommended background reading:
Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince (1831), ed. S. Salih. Penguin 2000/2004
Lewis, Matthew Gregory. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834 – various modern editions available)
Armitage, David and Michael Braddick. The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Palgrave 2002
Heuman, Gad and James Walvin (eds.). The Slavery Reader. Routledge 2003