An Englishman's Story of an African Man
Aside from the obvious discussion of Job as the noble savage there is also this discourse surrounding his being a Muslim which seems to be silenced in this text, as if the writer at times does not want to go into detail about his religion and how this shapes how he sees the Europeans. In one instance he talks about believing Jesus Christ to be a prophet and asks those around him why is it that they have created this image of Jesus when they have never seen him. Here I get the sense (despite the author’s silence) that Job is aware of the racial discourses that are going on around him, and that while he’s taking this in he’s not a passive observer but is critical of the English