This is a transdisciplinary analysis of 'The Life of Olaudah Equiano', first published in England in 1789. It was one of the earliest and remains to this day one of the best-known "slave" narratives. It is not simply autobiographical and it does not unproblematically register th…
This is a transdisciplinary analysis of 'The Life of Olaudah Equiano', first published in England in 1789. It was one of the earliest and remains to this day one of the best-known "slave" narratives. It is not simply autobiographical and it does not unproblematically register th…
In this text the author ties the life of the Bible to the wider history of slavery and transatlantic movements by studying the encounter between the North Atlantic and Black African worlds.
The introduction to this new edition of Olaudah Equiano's classic narrative is clear and lucid, full of useful historical background information and superb biographical coverage, written from a completely novel point of view.
This dissertation looks to the early American literary marketplace and argues that the American maritime genre, assumed to have begun with James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pilot in 1824, was not an uncontested genre prior to Cooper’s popularization of maritime nationalism. Inst…
