Warren's reasoning about blackness in an attempt to highlight the metalepsis resulting from the novel's use of the hot air-balloon and the octopus as dermatropes that cast the empire as simultaneously a dysfunctional family and a scientific laboratory. Given how the narrative emphasizes the somatic register and its epidermal terms as a scene of meaning, I bring together Frantz Fanon's idea of epidermalization, Steven Connor's phenomenological reading of the skin, and Calvin L. Weheliye's notion of habeas viscus as critical frames for the discussion of racialized subjectivity, I consider how Edugyan's use of the conventions of Victorian adventure literature and the slave narrative rethinks the entanglements between the imperial commodification of life and the scientific agenda of natural history. Murphy's examining of the neo-slave narrative with Christina Sharpe's conceptualization of the wake and Alexander G. Thus by interlacing, within the context of black critical theory, Yogita Goyal's and Laura T. 'Stylistically flawless, thematically layered and historically fascinating, this novel is a masterpiece.The publication of Esi Edugyan's Washington Black has placed the novel among other works of history and art, which recall the material and epistemic violence of institutional racism and the lasting trauma of its legacy. It is being made into a television mini-series, scheduled to air 2014 on CBC in Canada and BET in the US. Calgary (Alberta) chose it for its One City One Book in 2013. The Book of Negroes won The Rogers/Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, CBC Radio’s Canada Reads, and The Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. Aminata Diallo is 'an indomitable African woman who cuts a swath through a world that is pre-disposed to underestimate her' ( Conquering Lion Pictures.) The book follows her life journey from capture into slavery, through the American Revolution, escape to Canada, return to Sierra Leone, Africa, and ultimately freedom in England at the beginning of the 19th century.

It was published in the US and other countries as Someone Knows My Name, and in France as Aminata, the name of the novel's protogonist. The Book of Negroes is Lawrence Hill's award-winning third novel.

The book of negroes by lawrence hill