Helen Thomas, BLACK AGENTS PROVOCATEURS
From slaves to poets, novelists and intellectuals, black writers have challenged racial discrimination and legal inequalities in Britain since the 1700s. For 250 years their writings have offered platforms of resistance and called for changes in British law and society.
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Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies
Published by Cambridge University Press in 2000, this groundbreaking study presents an extended analysis of the poems and autobiographical texts published by black British slaves during the C18th and reveals an intertextual dialogue between the black diaspora and canonical Romanticism, and their corresponding systems
Helen Thomas, Caryl Phillips
Helen Thomas examines the ways in which Caryl Phillips responds both creatively and critically to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal and racism in the black Atlantic.
Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary
This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.