Author: Joanne Ruth Davis (SOAS, University of London; Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study)
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Copyeditor: Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue University)
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This essay is currently under internal peer review and will soon be sent for external peer review. We anticipate that it will be published in early 2023.
Lead Image Details
Lead image caption: Anonymous et al., “IV - India. South Travancore. (2) Reports from the Missionaries,” excerpt The Seventy-Ninth Report of the London Missionary Society , 1873, 96–97. CWML H698 University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Public domain.
Lead image commentary: As a visual representation, this two-page spread illustrates the archival materials that the present author encountered as part of her research for the “BIPOC Voices” project. The two pages include four distinct, BIPOC-authored pieces, yet only one is attributed to a named individual. This configuration underscores the fact that recovering the work of BIPOC creators from Victorian missionary periodicals required careful, ongoing, page-by-page analysis because such voices take multiple forms and, as a result, no universal method for identifying these voices can be applied. This archival work, among its other benefits to the “BIPOC Voices” project, also established the foundation for the analysis that the author advances in the present essay.
