Slavery, literacy and power

Price, Pamela 2023. Slavery, literacy and power. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

This PhD thesis comprises two sections: the critical commentary, ‘Slavery, Literacy and Power’ and the young adult novel, When We Were Nobody. The critical commentary considers the research behind the novel and furthers discussions regarding modern-day enslavement, the development of eighteenth-century children’s literature as well as literacy, enslavement, and freedom. It consists of two chapters: Chapter One, which has two sections: Dynamic Developments of Children’s Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century and Liminality in Slave Literacy, Resistance and Revolution in the American Colonies and Chapter Two, which examines The Interrelationship Between the Critical and Creative Components. When We Were Nobody is speculative fiction young adult novel about two fifteen-year-old girls who are enslaved as domestic servants: an eighteenth-century Black girl transported from Saint-Domingue to 1793 Philadelphia and a contemporary white girl trafficked from Poland to London. The novel explores the impact of literacy on their respective journeys from enslavement to freedom, where they achieve agency and voice through a series of time shifts. The girls eventually cross paths and encourage each other to gain freedom within their own time.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 June 2023
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 01:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/160482

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