Levy, in reanimating the history of Jamaican slavery by aligning her text with the unheard ‘History From Below’ perspective, demonstrates and replicates the unreliable narratives orchestrated by those ‘From Above’.

This essay argues that the experience of resistance in Levy’s narrative is one of literary mimicry, analysing July’s written resistance as it answers back to and confronts the colonial narratives that disregard the oppressed individual experience from history. When read through a postcolonial lens, The Long Song takes the form of a counter-discourse, where the main character of Miss July offers a corrective to the dominant white narratives of Caribbean history. Set during the final days of Slavery on the island of Jamaica, Andrea Levy’s 2010 novel, The Long Song is a neo-slave narrative that explores the nature of slave resistance and colonial historiographical control. Social Sciences JournalsĮuropean Journal of Social Sciences StudiesĮuropean Journal of Economic and Financial ResearchĮuropean Journal of Management and Marketing StudiesĮuropean Journal of Human Resource Management StudiesĮuropean Journal of Political Science Studies Public Health JournalsĮuropean Journal of Public Health StudiesĮuropean Journal of Fitness, Nutrition and Sport Medicine StudiesĮuropean Journal of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Studies Literature, Language and Linguistics JournalsĮuropean Journal of Applied Linguistics StudiesĮuropean Journal of Multilingualism and Translation StudiesĮuropean Journal Of Physical Education and Sport ScienceĮuropean Journal of F oreign Language TeachingĮuropean Journal of English Language TeachingĮuropean Journal of Special Education ResearchĮuropean Journal of Alternative Education StudiesĮuropean Journal of Open Education and E-learning Studies

The Long Song by Andrea Levy