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Title Genius in bondage : literature of the early Black Atlantic / edited by Vincent Carreta and Philip Gould
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015

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Contents 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
Summary 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, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment
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Subject 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
SUBJECT Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780 fast
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 fast
Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (Equiano, Olaudah) fast
Subject 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
African literature (English)
Black people in literature
English literature
English literature -- Black authors
Slavery in literature
Enslaved persons' writings, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Carretta, Vincent
Gould, Philip
ISBN 9780813159461
0813159466
1322597324
9781322597324
0813122031
9780813122038