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- Title
Strange Music: Engaging Imaginatively with the Family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a Creole and Black Woman's Perspective.
- Authors
Fish, Laura
- Abstract
This article overviews a forthcoming novel "Strange Music," by Laura Fish which presents a historical fiction exploring race relations and the injustice of the plantation system through the eyes of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a Creole, and a black slave. The author describes the efforts of using three separate first-person narratives to present a possible historical yet modern look at racial prejudice in British history.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; RACISM in literature; FISH, Laura; HISTORICAL fiction; SOCIAL conditions in Great Britain; STRANGE Music (Book : Fish); NINETEENTH century; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2006, Vol 44, Issue 4, p507
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2007.0004