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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: William Earle , Srinivas AravamudanPublisher: Broadview Press Ltd Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd Edition: illustrated edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781551116693ISBN 10: 1551116693 Pages: 255 Publication Date: 27 July 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Timeline of Historical and Literary Events Surrounding New World Slavery, Abolitionism, and Obeah, 1492-1838 A Note on the Text Obi; or, the History of Three-fingered Jack Appendix A: Historical Sources on Obeah From Benjamin Moseley, A Treatise on Sugar (1799) From House of Commons Sessional Papers (1789) From Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica (1834) Appendix B: Accounts of Tacky’s Rebellion (1760) From Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (1774) From Bryan Edwards, Observations on the Disposition, Character, Manners, and Habits of Life, of the Maroons (1796) Appendix C: Literary Treatments of Obeah From James Grainger, The Sugar Cane: A Poem. In Four Books (1764) John Fawcett, Obi; or,Three-Finger’d Jack: A Serio-Pantomime, in Two Acts (1800) From Maria Edgeworth, “The Grateful Negro,” Popular Tales (1804) Select BibliographyReviewsThis truly innovative edition of a compelling novel about eighteenth-century slave rebellions in Jamaica provides a valuable and necessary context for the complicated politics of obeah. Aravamudan's introduction attends to the ways in which obeah is an epistemological model competing with Enlightenment reason, and demonstrates with meticulous detail how it functions as a form of resistant cultural, political, religious, and medical knowledge. The appendices complement Aravamudan's frame for the novel, making this edition one that will appeal equally to general readers and scholars of post-colonial studies. -- Rajani Sudan, Southern Methodist University This truly innovative edition of a compelling novel about eighteenth-century slave rebellions in Jamaica provides a valuable and necessary context for the complicated politics of obeah. Aravamudan's introduction attends to the ways in which obeah is an epistemological model competing with Enlightenment reason, and demonstrates with meticulous detail how it functions as a form of resistant cultural, political, religious, and medical knowledge. The appendices complement Aravamudan's frame for the novel, making this edition one that will appeal equally to general readers and scholars of post-colonial studies. --Rajani Sudan Author InformationSrinivas Aravamudan teaches eighteenth-century literature and post-colonial studies at Duke University, where he is the director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. He is the author of Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (Duke University Press) and of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (Princeton University Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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