Assigned & Optional Secondary Readings
- Dominique, Lyndon J. “‘An unportioned girl of my complexion…can be a dangerous object.’
Abolition and he Mulatto Heiress in England.” Imoinda’s Shade: Marriage and the African
Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808. Ohio State UP, 2012, pp. 223-59.
- ---. Introduction. The Woman of Colour, a Tale, by anonymous, Broadview, 2008, pp. 11-42.
- Fiedler, Brigitte. “The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement.” Women’s Narratives of
the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, edited by Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan
C. Imbarrato, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 171-85.
- Murray, Julie. "The Country and the City and the Colony in The Woman of Colour." Lumen, vol.
33, 2014, pp. 87-99.
Background Readings:
- Dominique, Lyndon J. "African Blood, Colonial Money, and Respectable Mulatto Heiress
Reforming Eighteenth-Century Englad." The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900, edited
by Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Zita Nunes, and Carla L. Peterson. Palgrave Macmillan,
2015, pp. 84-104.
- Gikandi, Simon. "Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery." Slavery and the Culture of Taste.
Princeton UP, 2011, pp. 1-49.
- Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. Black London: Life before Emancipation. Rutgers UP, 1995.
- Goveia, Elsa. "The Social Framework." Savacou, vol. 2, 1970, 7-15.
- Livesday, Daniel. "Tales of Two Families, 1793-1900." Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race
Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833. UNC P, 2018, pp. 249-300.
- Lorimer, Douglas. “Reconstructing Victorian Racial Discourse: Images of Race, the Language of
Race Relations, and Context of Black Resistance.” Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, edited by
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. Rutgers UP, 2003, pp. 187-207.
Contemporary Literature:
- Hodge, Merle. Crick Crack, Monkey. 1970.
- Cliff, Michelle. Abeng. 1984.
- ---. No Telephone to Heaven. 1987.
