Title William Wells Brown : a reader / edited by Ezra Greenspan

Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 448 pages) : illustrations Contents Writing fugitive slave autobiography -- Writing antislavery oratory -- Writing African American travelogue -- Writing African American fiction -- Writing African American drama -- Writing African American history -- Writing African American Civil War history -- Writing African American memoir Summary "Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements." "Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers." "Ezra Greenspan has selected the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. The volume opens with an introductory essay that places Brown and his work in a cultural and political context. Each chapter begins with a detailed introductory headnote, and the contents are closely annotated; there is also a selected bibliography. This reader offers an introduction to the work of a major African American writer who was engaged in many of the important debates of his time."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-438) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 -- Writing skill Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 -- Travel SUBJECT Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 -- Travel Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 -- Literary art Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 fast Subject African Americans -- Historiography Autobiography -- African American authors. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism Antislavery movements -- United States -- Historiography African Americans -- Biography African American authors -- Biography Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- African American. African American authors African Americans African Americans -- Historiography American literature -- African American authors Antislavery movements -- Historiography Autobiography -- African American authors Fugitive slaves Travel United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies Form Electronic book Author Greenspan, Ezra. LC no. 2008043592 ISBN 9780820336343 0820336343 1282553372 9781282553378

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