Genius in bondage : literature of the early Black Atlantic / edited by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carretta, Vincent
Gould, Philip, 1960-
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2001], ©2001.
Subjects:
African literature (English) > Foreign countries > History and criticism.
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.
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sancho, Ignatius, > 1729-1780 > Criticism and interpretation.
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Enslaved persons' writings, English > History and criticism.
Africans > Foreign countries > Historiography.
Slavery in literature.
Black people in literature.
Physical Description:272 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Betrayed by some of my own complexion : Cugoano, abolition, and the contemporary language of racialism / Roxanne Wheeler
  • Race, redemption, and captivity in the narratives of Briton Hammon and John Marrant / Karen A. Weyler
  • Being a man : Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho / Felicity A. Nussbaum
  • Volatile subjects : the history of Mary Prince / Gillian Whitlock
  • Letters of the old Calibar slave trade, 1760-1789 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson
  • Remarkable liberty : language and identity in eighteenth-century Black autobiography / Philip Gould
  • Property of author : Olaudah Equiano's place in the history of the book / Vincent Carretta
  • Surprizing deliverance? : slavery and freedom, language, and identity in the narrative of Briton Hammon, a Negro man / Robert Desrochers, Jr.
  • On her own footing : Phillis Wheatley in freedom / Frank Shuffelton
  • Thou hast the holy word : Jupiter Hammon's "regards" to Phillis Wheatley / Rosemary Fithian Guruswamy
  • Ignatius Sancho's letters : sentimental libertinism and the politics of form / Markman Ellis
  • Benjamin Banneker's revision of Thomas Jefferson : conscience versus science in the early American antislavery debate / William L. Andrews
  • Fifth of July : Nathaniel Paul and the construction of Black nationalism / Robert S. Levine.