Measuring the Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-century Afro-English WritingSusquehanna University Press, 1988 - 181 páginas This work closely analyzes and evaluates the literary achievement and the sociopolitical impact of three eighteenth-century Anglo-African authors -- Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, and Olaudah Equiano -- and their work, which collectively represents the earliest emergence of black self-consciousness in England. |
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Preface | 9 |
Contexts for Black Writing | 43 |
Moral Suasion and the Benevolent Self | 73 |
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A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700-2000 C. L. Innes Pré-visualização limitada - 2002 |