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"The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow" (2014)
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Roberts, G. (2014). "The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow". International Journal of Canadian Studies, 48, https://doi.org/10.3138/ijcs.48.53

This article examines the 2009 deluxe illustrated edition of Lawrence Hill’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize– and Canada Reads–winning novel The Book of Negroes, originally published in 2007. It relates the story of Aminata, a West African girl kidnapped... Read More about "The Book of Negroes’ illustrated edition: circulating African-Canadian history through the Middlebrow".