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Scholar's Dilemma Path

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This path addresses a major focal difference between contemporary scholarship on the life of Mary Seacole and identifies a disconnection among them. While some critics explore the performative strategies that Seacole uses to construe her identity in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, others tend to look at Seacole's merits (or lack thereof) as a laudable Black and British pioneer nurse.

In response, the pathway evaluates studies from both tendencies, side by side, in order to uncover and explore questions that rise from the comparative analysis of the critical strategies they employ.

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