(Dis)forming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular
- ISBN-10
- 1452901449
- ISBN-13
- 9781452901442
- Category
- American prose literature
- Pages
- 343
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- U of Minnesota Press
- Author
- Ronald A. T. Judy
Description
... among the documents that accompanied the first edition of the Narrative of Frederick Douglass . The pertinent document is one that Douglass saw fit to include as the preface to his text , a letter to him from Wendell Phillips dated ...
Get the book
Similar books
-
佛罗伦萨: 精致之城的往昔时光
By 李维特, 王前佛罗伦萨: 精致之城的往昔时光
-
American Prose Masters: Cooper--Hawthorne--Emerson--Poe--Lowell--Henry James
By William Crary BrownellThis historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated.
-
Herman Melville
By Herman MelvilleIf his record as a sailor was far from exemplary, Melville's travels did provide the raw material for much of his fiction. In January of 1841, he sailed from Massachusetts on the whaler Acushnet and deserted eighteen months later on the ...
-
Guys Read: True Stories
By Jon ScieszkaPresents ten true stories that include essays, biographies, and travelogues.
-
The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration
By David SpurrHere Darwin anticipates Conrad's use of the savage landscape as a metaphor for modern anxiety and the unconscious . In Heart of Darkness , Marlow's youthful lust for adventure is fired by the " blank spaces on the earth " and in ...
-
Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers
By Robert DiYanni, John CliffordA key drama of our own day is Ingmar Bergman's movie Scenes from a Marriage . In it we see a husband and wife who have good jobs and a well - furnished home but who are unable to communicate " —to cite one of the signature words of the ...
-
The Auto/biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/biography
By Liz StanleyWilson , Liz , 247 Wise , Sue , 21 Wise , Sue , and Stanley , Liz , 124 Wolfe , Susan , see Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe Wollstonecraft , Mary , 199 Woods , Marianne , 218 Woolf , Leonard , 11 , 133 , 134 Woolf , Virginia , 9 , 11 ...
-
Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing
By Graham Huggan, Patrick HollandLewis , James R. , and Gordon Melton , eds . Perspectives on the New Age . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1992 . ... Lowenthal , David , and Martyn Bowden , eds . Geographies of the Mind : Essays in Historical Geosophy .
-
The Writing on the Wall: Women's Autobiography and the Asylum
By Mary Elene WoodThe Writing on the Wall: Women's Autobiography and the Asylum
-
American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect
By Paul John EakinFor Those Who Came After : A Study of Native American Autobiography . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of ... Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America . ... Research Library of Colonial Americana Reprint .