Creole Testimonies

NICOLE N. ALJOE Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, USA.

• 'So Much Things to Say': The Creole Testimonies of British West Indian Slaves  The Forms of Creole Testimony: A Poetics of Fragmentation  The Creole Voices of West Indian Slave Narratives  'Going to Law': Legal Discourse and Testimony in Early West Indian Slave Narratives  Zombie Testimony: Creole Religious Discourse in West Indian Slave Narratives Creole Testimony and the Black Atlantic: Re-Mapping the Early Slave Narrative

'Creole Testimonies will become the standard work on West Indian slave narratives and ex-slave narratives. Aljoe accurately points out that scholars and readers have long preferred the North American ex-slave narratives, such as Frederick Douglass's, because through them shines a single seemingly authentic author . . . Creole Testimonies argues for the centrality of these narratives based on their collaborative nature, in which several voices, including the slave's or freed-person's, argued about black humanity and the legitimacy of slavery and based on their reflection of West Indian culture and even Caribbean topography - fragments assembled by men and women into a meaningful whole.' - John Saillant, professor of English and History, Western Michigan University