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By N. Aljoe

Analyses the relationships one of the socio-historical contexts, standard types, and rhetorical thoughts of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by means of the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio  it breaks new floor by means of interpreting those dictated and fragmentary narratives all alone phrases as examples of 'creole testimony'.

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