Genius in bondage : literature of the early Black Atlantic /

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Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, ra...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Carretta, Vincent, Gould, Philip
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
Sujets:
Equiano, Olaudah, > 1745-1797. > Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
Hammon, Briton. > Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprising deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man.
Sancho, Ignatius, > 1729-1780 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sancho, Ignatius, > 1729-1780.
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784.
Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (Equiano, Olaudah)
1700-1799
African literature (English)
Africans > Foreign countries > Historiography.
Black people in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Enslaved persons' writings, English > History and criticism.
Littérature africaine (anglaise)
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
English literature.
English literature > Black authors.
Enslaved persons' writings, English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction / Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould; PART ONE RACE AND GENDER IN THE EARLY BLACK ATLANTIC; Betrayed by Some of My Own Complexion: Cugoano, Abolition, and the Contemporary Language of Racialism; NOTES; NOTES; Race, Redemption, and Captivity in the Narratives of Briton Hammon and John Marrant; Being a Man: Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho; NOTES; Volatile Subjects: The History of Mary Prince; THE HISTORY
  • MARGINALIA; MR PRINGLE; Miss STRICKLAND; AUTHORIZATION; VOLATILE BODIES; NOTES.
  • PART TWO MARKET CULTURE AND RACIAL AUTHORITYLetters of the Old Calibar Slave Trade, 1760-1789; APPENDIX; GRANDY KING GEORGE; NOTES; ""Remarkable Liberty"": Language and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Black Autobiography; THE FREE CARPENTER; THE VENTURE CAPITALIST; NOTES; ""Property of Author"": Olaudah Equiano's Place in the History of the Book; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; WORKS CITED; PART THREE LANGUAGE AND THE ""OTHER"": THE QUESTION OF DIFFERENCE; ""Surprizing Deliverance""?: Slavery and Freedom, Language, and Identity in the Narrative of Briton Hammon, ""A Negro Man""
  • SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND AUTHORITY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLDSLAVERY, PRINT, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND ALLEGIANCE IN LATE-COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS; CODA-NEW BEGINNINGS; NOTES; On Her Own Footing: Phillis Wheatley in Freedom; NOTES; ""Thou Hast the Holy Word"": Jupiter Hammon's ""Regards"" to Phillis Wheatley; NOTES; Ignatius Sancho's Letters: Sentimental Libertinism and the Politics of Form; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Benjamin Banneker's Revision of Thomas Jefferson: Conscience Versus Science in the Early American Antislavery Debate; NOTES; WORKS CITED.
  • Fifth of July: Nathaniel Paul and the Construction of Black NationalismNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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