David Dabydeen'sa Harlot's Progress
Re-presenting the slave narrative genre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abigail Ward (0000-0002-4434-4759) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-44 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449850701219827 |
| OpenAlex | W1502254098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
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
Art · Environmental ethics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2018 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |