Abstract This article employs Linda Hutcheon’s notion of historiographic metafiction (1988. A poetics of postmodernism: History, theory and fiction. New York: Routledge) as a theoretical construct to interrogate and destabilize the official history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Salem Witch Trials (1692–1693) in Prince Justice’s Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen (2007. London: AU Media). Justice reconceptualizes the Salem Witch Trials as an offshoot of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, making gendered discourses on slavery, racism, identity, justice, socio-economic realities and the African diaspora relevant to the twenty-first century reader. A framework of historiographic metafiction demonstrates how Justice seeks to reconstruct the experiences of the eponymous character, subvert traditional historical viewpoints and install plausible alternative narrative accounts, which connect the Salem Witch Trials to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The conscious effort of Justice to interrogate official historical and legal documents directs attention to the contemporary discourses and interdisciplinary links between literature and subject areas such as history and law, as well as cultural and diasporic studies.

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正义王子的《图托巴》中的跨大西洋奴隶体验：塞勒姆的黑尚戈奴隶女王

摘要 本文采用琳达·哈钦 (Linda Hutcheon) 的史学元小说概念 (1988。后现代主义诗学：历史、理论和小说。纽约：劳特利奇 (Routledge)) 作为一种理论建构来质疑和破坏跨大西洋奴隶贸易和塞勒姆的官方历史。正义王子的《图图巴：塞勒姆的黑尚戈奴隶女王》（2007 年。伦敦：AU Media）中的女巫审判（1692-1693）。正义将塞勒姆女巫审判重新定义为跨大西洋奴隶贸易的一个分支，使关于奴隶制、种族主义、身份、正义、社会经济现实和非洲侨民的性别话语与 21 世纪的读者相关。一个历史元小说的框架展示了正义如何寻求重建同名角色的经历，颠覆传统的历史观点并安装可信的替代叙事帐户，将塞勒姆女巫审判与跨大西洋奴隶贸易联系起来。司法部有意识地审问官方历史和法律文件的努力将注意力引向了文学与历史和法律等学科领域以及文化和侨民研究之间的当代话语和跨学科联系。