Abigail Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4434-4759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dead men tell no tales, but dead white men document plenty: Imagining the Middle Passage in Caryl Phillips'sCrossing the Riverand Fred D'Aguiar'sFeeding the Ghosts
Creative works by black diasporan authors have often been viewed as offering a counter-history or "counter-memory" to the received history of slavery. Frequently, the Atlantic Ocean has taken on a particular relevance in such creative texts, as both a literal and an imagined site of untold diasporan trajectories. This article focusses on Caryl Phillips's novel Crossing the River and Fred D'Aguiar's novel Feeding the Ghosts, exploring each author'…
Servitude and Slave Narratives: Tracing ‘New Slaveries’ in Mende Nazer’s Slave and Zadie Smith’s ‘The Embassy of Cambodia’
Novelist Zadie Smith’s short story ‘The Embassy of Cambodia’, first published in The New Yorker on 11 February 2013, follows the fortunes of a young woman called Fatou, from the Ivory Coast. She is
Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance
This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian
Price subsidies increase the use of private sector ACTs: Evidence from a systematic review
Word people”: A conversation with David Dabydeen
Assuming the burden of memory: The translation of Indian indenture in Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin
This paper explores Peggy Mohan’s novel Jahajin (2007), in which she returns imaginatively to the past history of Indian indenture in order to explore its relevance and remembrance in late twentieth-century Trinidad. As Mohan’s unnamed narrator traces her family’s matrilineal involvement in this past, the novel examines the way in which Indian women, in particular, have been edited from official versions of both Trinidadian and Indian migratory h…
Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery
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
"Looking across the Atlantic" in Caryl Phillips'sIn the Falling Snow
Caryl Phillips's novel In the Falling Snow (2009 Phillips, Caryl. 2009. In the Falling Snow, London: Harvill. [Google Scholar]) explores a spectrum of black British diasporan positions, moving from the early optimism and subsequent disappointment of the Windrush generation of migrants to encounter the difficulties facing second- and third-generation black Britons in a sometimes inhospitable and turbulent country. This article argues that In the F…
Postcolonial Interventions into the Archive of Slavery: Transforming Documents into Monuments in Beryl Gilroy’s Stedman and Joanna
This essay explores the ways in which contemporary postcolonial writers like Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Beryl Gilroy engage with the archive of slavery, focusing in particular on Gilroy’s novel Stedman and Joanna (1991). Borrowing from Michel Foucault’s work The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), I argue that the reliance of authors on the narratives of slave captains and plantation owners may be troubling because of the possibility of turn…
Tracing black America in black British culture
Words are all I have left of my eyes”: Blinded by the Past in J. M. W. Turner’s Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying and David Dabydeen’s “Turner”
This article explores J. M. W. Turner’s painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon Coming On (1840) in relation to David Dabydeen’s poem “Turner” (1994). The representation of drowning slaves in Turner’s painting has been the subject of much debate, both at the time of its first public display and in more recent years. I examine some of the contexts surrounding Turner’s work before moving on to critically assess Dabydeen’s own…
David Dabydeen'sa Harlot's Progress: Re-presenting the slave narrative genre
This paper considers the slave narrative genre with attention to David Dabydeen’s novel A Harlot’s Progress (1999).Dabydeen provocatively suggests through his protagonist Mungo the ways in which diasporan slave narrators have struggled with issues of self‐representation. In so doing, he questions the ethics of 18th‐century editors and readers alongside contemporary authors who claim these writers as figureheads of black Britain
Words are all I have left of my eyes”: Blinded by the Past in J. M. W. Turner’s Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying and David Dabydeen’s “Turner”
This article explores J. M. W. Turner’s painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon Coming On (1840) in relation to David Dabydeen’s poem “Turner” (1994). The representation of drowning slaves in Turner’s painting has been the subject of much debate, both at the time of its first public display and in more recent years. I examine some of the contexts surrounding Turner’s work before moving on to critically assess Dabydeen’s own…
Assuming the burden of memory: The translation of Indian indenture in Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin
This paper explores Peggy Mohan’s novel Jahajin (2007), in which she returns imaginatively to the past history of Indian indenture in order to explore its relevance and remembrance in late twentieth-century Trinidad. As Mohan’s unnamed narrator traces her family’s matrilineal involvement in this past, the novel examines the way in which Indian women, in particular, have been edited from official versions of both Trinidadian and Indian migratory h…
"Looking across the Atlantic" in Caryl Phillips'sIn the Falling Snow
Caryl Phillips's novel In the Falling Snow (2009 Phillips, Caryl. 2009. In the Falling Snow, London: Harvill. [Google Scholar]) explores a spectrum of black British diasporan positions, moving from the early optimism and subsequent disappointment of the Windrush generation of migrants to encounter the difficulties facing second- and third-generation black Britons in a sometimes inhospitable and turbulent country. This article argues that In the F…
David Dabydeen'sa Harlot's Progress: Re-presenting the slave narrative genre
This paper considers the slave narrative genre with attention to David Dabydeen’s novel A Harlot’s Progress (1999).Dabydeen provocatively suggests through his protagonist Mungo the ways in which diasporan slave narrators have struggled with issues of self‐representation. In so doing, he questions the ethics of 18th‐century editors and readers alongside contemporary authors who claim these writers as figureheads of black Britain
Dead men tell no tales, but dead white men document plenty: Imagining the Middle Passage in Caryl Phillips'sCrossing the Riverand Fred D'Aguiar'sFeeding the Ghosts
Creative works by black diasporan authors have often been viewed as offering a counter-history or "counter-memory" to the received history of slavery. Frequently, the Atlantic Ocean has taken on a particular relevance in such creative texts, as both a literal and an imagined site of untold diasporan trajectories. This article focusses on Caryl Phillips's novel Crossing the River and Fred D'Aguiar's novel Feeding the Ghosts, exploring each author'…
Servitude and Slave Narratives: Tracing ‘New Slaveries’ in Mende Nazer’s Slave and Zadie Smith’s ‘The Embassy of Cambodia’
Novelist Zadie Smith’s short story ‘The Embassy of Cambodia’, first published in The New Yorker on 11 February 2013, follows the fortunes of a young woman called Fatou, from the Ivory Coast. She is
Word people”: A conversation with David Dabydeen
Postcolonial Interventions into the Archive of Slavery: Transforming Documents into Monuments in Beryl Gilroy’s Stedman and Joanna
This essay explores the ways in which contemporary postcolonial writers like Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Beryl Gilroy engage with the archive of slavery, focusing in particular on Gilroy’s novel Stedman and Joanna (1991). Borrowing from Michel Foucault’s work The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), I argue that the reliance of authors on the narratives of slave captains and plantation owners may be troubling because of the possibility of turn…
Words are all I have left of my eyes”: Blinded by the Past in J. M. W. Turner’s Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying and David Dabydeen’s “Turner”
This article explores J. M. W. Turner’s painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon Coming On (1840) in relation to David Dabydeen’s poem “Turner” (1994). The representation of drowning slaves in Turner’s painting has been the subject of much debate, both at the time of its first public display and in more recent years. I examine some of the contexts surrounding Turner’s work before moving on to critically assess Dabydeen’s own…
David Dabydeen'sa Harlot's Progress: Re-presenting the slave narrative genre
This paper considers the slave narrative genre with attention to David Dabydeen’s novel A Harlot’s Progress (1999).Dabydeen provocatively suggests through his protagonist Mungo the ways in which diasporan slave narrators have struggled with issues of self‐representation. In so doing, he questions the ethics of 18th‐century editors and readers alongside contemporary authors who claim these writers as figureheads of black Britain
Tracing black America in black British culture
Postcolonial Interventions into the Archive of Slavery: Transforming Documents into Monuments in Beryl Gilroy’s Stedman and Joanna
This essay explores the ways in which contemporary postcolonial writers like Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Beryl Gilroy engage with the archive of slavery, focusing in particular on Gilroy’s novel Stedman and Joanna (1991). Borrowing from Michel Foucault’s work The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), I argue that the reliance of authors on the narratives of slave captains and plantation owners may be troubling because of the possibility of turn…
Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery
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
"Looking across the Atlantic" in Caryl Phillips'sIn the Falling Snow
Caryl Phillips's novel In the Falling Snow (2009 Phillips, Caryl. 2009. In the Falling Snow, London: Harvill. [Google Scholar]) explores a spectrum of black British diasporan positions, moving from the early optimism and subsequent disappointment of the Windrush generation of migrants to encounter the difficulties facing second- and third-generation black Britons in a sometimes inhospitable and turbulent country. This article argues that In the F…
Assuming the burden of memory: The translation of Indian indenture in Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin
This paper explores Peggy Mohan’s novel Jahajin (2007), in which she returns imaginatively to the past history of Indian indenture in order to explore its relevance and remembrance in late twentieth-century Trinidad. As Mohan’s unnamed narrator traces her family’s matrilineal involvement in this past, the novel examines the way in which Indian women, in particular, have been edited from official versions of both Trinidadian and Indian migratory h…
Word people”: A conversation with David Dabydeen
Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance
This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian
Price subsidies increase the use of private sector ACTs: Evidence from a systematic review
Servitude and Slave Narratives: Tracing ‘New Slaveries’ in Mende Nazer’s Slave and Zadie Smith’s ‘The Embassy of Cambodia’
Novelist Zadie Smith’s short story ‘The Embassy of Cambodia’, first published in The New Yorker on 11 February 2013, follows the fortunes of a young woman called Fatou, from the Ivory Coast. She is
Dead men tell no tales, but dead white men document plenty: Imagining the Middle Passage in Caryl Phillips'sCrossing the Riverand Fred D'Aguiar'sFeeding the Ghosts
Creative works by black diasporan authors have often been viewed as offering a counter-history or "counter-memory" to the received history of slavery. Frequently, the Atlantic Ocean has taken on a particular relevance in such creative texts, as both a literal and an imagined site of untold diasporan trajectories. This article focusses on Caryl Phillips's novel Crossing the River and Fred D'Aguiar's novel Feeding the Ghosts, exploring each author'…
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