{"id":22425,"date":"2012-04-12T19:28:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2012-04-12T19:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:28:26","slug":"creole-performance-in-wonderful-adventures-of-mrs-seacole-in-many-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22425","title":{"rendered":"Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x\" target=\"_blank\">Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1468-0424\" target=\"_blank\">Gender &amp; History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/gend.2003.15.issue-3\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 15, Issue 3<\/a>, November 2003<br \/>\npages 487\u2013506<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bc.edu\/schools\/cas\/english\/faculty\/facalpha\/frederick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhonda Frederick<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of African &amp; African Diaspora Studies Program<br \/>\n<em>Boston College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Seacole\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Seacole&#8217;s<\/a> autobiography has been read as a feminist performance as well as a paradigmatic Victorian travel narrative. While these assessments address important aspects of the memoir, neither affords the author&#8217;s Jamaicanness significant space in its analysis. This essay addresses the silences left when <em>Wonderful Adventures<\/em> is removed from its Jamaican context, then offers a reading of it from this perspective. Grounded in histories that document nineteenth-century Jamaican social categories, the article analyses Seacole&#8217;s book using Caribbean literary perspectives that explore raced, \u2018coloured\u2019 and geographically-located identities. The result is an interpretation of the memoir that offers insight into Jamaica&#8217;s Creole population, its status and colour politics, and identity concerns. All have been expertly shaped by Seacole&#8217;s rhetorical manoeuvres.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Gender &amp; History Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2003 pages 487\u2013506 DOI: 10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x Rhonda Frederick, Associate Professor of African &amp; African Diaspora Studies Program Boston College Mary Seacole&#8217;s autobiography has been read as a feminist performance as well as a paradigmatic Victorian travel narrative. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1196,8,25],"tags":[2957,3692,10383],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-gender-history","tag-mary-seacole","tag-rhonda-frederick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}