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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper makes a brief linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis of the Spanish language as spoken by enslaved Africans during the Spanish Colony, particularly during the 17th century, when Sor (Sister) Juana Ines de la...
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From:Alabama Heritage (Issue 87)Ruby Pickens Tartt's interviews for the WPA project stand out on account of Tartt's sensitivity and her interest in the details of everyday life. In this interview, excerpted courtesy American Memory/Library of...
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From: The Massachusetts ReviewOne of the curious things about Richard Wright is that while there is no question that his best works occupy a prominent place in the Afro-American canon, or that a survey of Afro-American literature would be incomplete...
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From: The Voices of African American Women: The Use of Narrative and Authorial Voice in the Works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Johnson analyzes Jacobs's approach to point of view in her autobiography. Johnson argues that, by using a fictional alter ego to tell her life story, Jacobs establishes a...
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From: The Southern Review[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Goddu and Smith contend that Douglass’s autobiographies are not just a way for him “to write [himself] into being” but that they also “inscribe within themselves the steps along...
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From: Western Humanities Review[(essay date winter 1988) In the following essay, Burt characterizes Douglass's Narrative as a declaration of citizenship.] Frederick Douglass claimed that he began to become free when he learned to write. Part of what...
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From: Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass[In the following essay, originally published in 1986, Sundquist examines Douglass's symbolic and rhetorical use of literacy and paternity—and the powers each represents—in My Bondage and My Freedom .] The...
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From: Southern Literary JournalIn the following essay, Doherty examines Jacob's use of the conventions of the sentimental genre and describes the shortcomings of Incidents as a sentimental novel. Rather, he argues that Jacobs “ingeniously inducts...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 162. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (autobiography) 1861; also published as Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed in Slavery, 1861, and The...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn September 1862, when Abraham Lincoln read a draft of what became the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves in Confederate states would be legally free on January 1, 1863, around 400 recently escaped...
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From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 31) Peer-ReviewedSlave narratives, in general, and Frederick Douglass's works, in particular, have created a serious difficulty for their modern readers and interpreters as representations of the otherwise silent community of black...
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From:Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (Vol. 40, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedJeffery Renard Allen's Song of the Shank (2014) is the first novel written about Blind Tom, a slave pianist and boy wonder, who before and after the Civil War, performed throughout the United States and abroad. Born a...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 144, Issue 5276)Alongside this summer's debate over the meanings of the Confederate flag, sparked by the Charleston shootings, another story about the history of American racism flared up. Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, an early draft...
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From: Studies in American Fiction[(essay date autumn 1997) In the following essay, Patterson explores Alcott's use of rhetorical techniques to construct political and social identities for black men in "The Brothers."] You have seen how a man was made...
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From: American Studies[(essay date fall 1994) In the following essay, Morgan offers an in-depth analysis of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Through...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Born a slave on a plantation in Maryland, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom in the North at age 21 and eventually rose to international prominence as a lecturer, journalist, editor, autobiographer, and political...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 55, Issue S2) Peer-ReviewedThe publication of Esi Edugyan's Washington Black has placed the novel among other works of history and art, which recall the material and epistemic violence of institutional racism and the lasting trauma of its legacy....
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner is one of those rare texts that becomes increasingly more relevant with the passage of time. Such is the primary theme of the essays in this special issue, which...
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From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMy clothes may express the dressmaker, but they don't express me.--Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (183) In this epigraph from Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer argues with Madame Merle about...
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From:South: A Scholarly Journal (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA SEASON OF HORROR If you enter Charleston from the outside, this is what you will see: If the century is eighteenth, you might first be struck by signs of ruin in the riverine space between the city and Sullivan's...