Copyright; 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
Summary
This text examines the ways in which the literary explorations of slavery may shed light on current issues in Britain today, or what might be thought of as the continuing legacies of the UK's largely forgotten slave past
