African Literatures in English: East and WestThis text examining African literature in English covers topics such as 18th and 19th-century slave narratives of the black diaspora, 19th and early-20th-century histories, travel accounts, political writing and the beginnings of fiction. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Eighteenth and NineteenthCentury Slave Narratives | 7 |
Nineteenth and Early TwentiethCentury Histories Travel | 25 |
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