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Cambridge

Caryl Phillips
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Region

Caribbean

England

Era

Post-colonial

Language

English

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Fiction

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Emily, an English woman visiting her father's Caribbean plantation in the early 19th century, and Cambridge, an enslaved African man who converted to Christianity, each narrate their experience of the same place.

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One of the most elegant formal explorations of the colonial encounter from two sides

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Emily, an English woman visiting her father's Caribbean plantation in the early 19th century, and Cambridge, an enslaved African man who converted to Christianity, each narrate their experience of the same place. One of the most elegant formal explorations of the colonial encounter from two sides

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