English Literature A-Level
Racial Identity and the Legacy of Slavery
What Racial Identity and the Legacy of Slavery means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The novel makes social belief, rather than supernatural fact, its central source of threat through racial ambiguity, communal rumour and the legacy of slavery.
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