Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents /

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Main Author: Mistron, Deborah E., 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series:The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Literary analysis of Annie John: Coming of age in Antigua
  • Historical context: Slavery and its aftermath
  • From: Letters from Antigua (1789)
  • the history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, narrated by herself (1831) / Mary Prince
  • A genuine narrative of the intended conspiracy of the Negroes at Antigua, extracted from an authentic copy of a report made to the chief governor of the Carabee Islands (1737)
  • "From 'The sense of their slavery': Slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763" (1996) / David Barry Gaspar
  • The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789) / Olaudah Equiano
  • The anti-slavery examiner: emancipation in the West Indies: a six months' tour of Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837 (1838) / Jas A. Thome and J. Horace Kimball
  • To shoot hard labour: the life and times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan workingman, 1877-1982 (1986) / Keithlyn B. Smith and Fernando C. Smith
  • "A lot of memory: an interview with Jamaica Kincaid" (1994) / Moira Ferguson
  • Spirituality in Antigua: Obeah and Christianity
  • From: In old Roseau: reminiscenses of life as I found it in the Island of Dominica, and among the Carib Indians (1900) / William S. Birge, M.D.
  • Journal of a West India proprietor, kept during a residence in the Island of Jamaica (1834) / Matthew Gregory Lewis
  • Obeah: witchcraft in the West Indies (1893) / Hesketh J. Bell
  • Jamaica as it is (1903) / B. Pullen-Burry
  • The Moravians in Jamaica: history of the Mission of the United Brethren's Church to the Negroes in the island of Jamaica, from the year 1754 to 1854 (1854) / J.H. Buchner
  • It's a natural fact: Obeah in the Bahamas (1977) / Basil C. Hedrick and Jeanette E. Stephens
  • Antigua and the Antiguans (1844) / [Mrs. Lanaghan]
  • A history of the West Indies (1808-1811) / Thomas Coke
  • To shoot hard labour: the life and times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan workingman, 1877-1982 (11986) / Keithlyn B. Smith and Fernando C. Smith
  • Interview with Michael Porobunu, of Nigeria (1997).
  • A colonial education: The Christopher Columbus controversy
  • From: History of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent (1841) / George Bancroft
  • The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus; to which are added those of his companions (1868) / Washington Irving
  • American holocaust: the conquest of the new world (1992) / David E. Stannard
  • "Reject Columbus Day?: the people speak" (1993) / J. Zamgba Browne
  • "Myth of Columbus is hard to dispel" (1992) / Mark Kosinski
  • "Why celebrate the quincentenary?" (1992) / William H. McNeill
  • "The Columbian quincentenary: an educational opportunity" (1991)
  • Social context: family life in Antigua
  • From: The Moravians in Jamaica: history of the Mission of the United Brethren's Church to the Negroes in the island of Jamaica, from the year 1754 to 1854 (1854) / J.H. Buchner
  • Antigua and antiguans (1844) / [Mrs. Lanaghan]
  • To shoot hard labour: the life and times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan workingman, 1877-1982 (1986) / Keithlyn B. Smith and Fernando C. Smith
  • "Bastardy, Gender hierarchy, and the state: the politics of family law reform in Antigua and Barbuda (1992) / Mindie Lazarus-Black
  • Leaving home: emigration from the West Indies
  • From: West Indian Societies (1972) / David Lowenthal
  • "American scene: The West Indians" (1966) / Gene Grove.