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The Haunting of Illa Bella Negreeta: Uncanny Home(Lands) in Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe

Volume 22 (2023): Issue 1 (December 2023)

By: Catherine Macmillan

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|Dec 2023

Abstract

This paper focuses on Zuleika, a young black inhabitant of Roman Londinium, and her uncanny relationship with her various homes and homelands in Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe. It also argues that the novel may provoke a sense of the uncanny in the reader, leading them to question traditional views of classical and British history as “all-white”.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2023-0031 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0134 | Journal ISSN: 1583-980X

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Language: English

Page range: 8 - 20

Published on: Dec 11, 2023

Published by: West University of Timisoara

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