Автор: Equiano Olaudah Название: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano ISBN: 1517679702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517679705 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1328.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The book describes Equiano`s time spent in enslavement, and documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.
Автор: Equiano Olaudah Название: The Life of Olaudah Equiano ISBN: 1722504722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781722504724 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A remarkable account of early slavery and later freedom, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written By Himself, is the 1789 autobiography of former slave Olaudah Equiano. This memoir is a slave narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey all-in-one. His life is a tale of terror as well as an exciting adventure. This fascinating account describes Equiano's abduction from Africa at the age of ten and the years spent in labor on slave ships. It documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom in 1766. What follows is success in business, in literacy, and a move to becoming an influential African advocate of abolishing the slave trade in Britain during the late 18th century. Equiano's degraded youth and respected later life in England is told with verve and sophistication in this spirited quest for fulfillment. A real masterpiece and a book of historical importance, the book was one of the first widely read slave narratives and was a precursor to other such slave narratives as that of Frederick Douglass. The work has proven so influential in the study of African and African-American literature that it is frequently taught in both English literature and history classrooms in universities.
Описание: <em>The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African</em>. Written by Himself (1789) is one of the most frequently and heatedly discussed texts in the canon of eighteenth-century transatlantic literature written in English. Equiano’s <em>Narrative</em> contains an engrossing account of the author’s experiences in Africa, the Americas, and Europe as he sought freedom from bondage and became a leading figure in the abolitionist movement. While scholars have approached this sophisticated work from diverse critical and historical/biographical perspectives, there has been, until now, little written about the ways in which it can be successfully taught in the twenty-first-century classroom. <br><br> In this collection of essays, most of them never before published, sixteen teacher-scholars focus explicitly on the various classroom contexts in which the <em>Narrative</em> can be assigned and various pedagogical strategies that can be used to help students understand the text and its complex cultural, intellectual, literary, and historical implications. The contributors explore topics ranging from the religious dimensions of Equiano’s rhetoric and controversies about his origins, specifically whether he was actually born in Africa and endured the Middle Passage, to considerations of the <em>Narrative</em>’s place in American Literature survey courses and how it can be productively compared to other texts, including captivity narratives and modern works of fiction. They not only suggest an array of innovative teaching models but also offer new readings of the work that have been overlooked in Equiano studies and slavery studies. With these two dimensions, this volume will help ensure that conversations over Equiano’s eighteenth-century autobiography remain relevant and engaging to today’s students.
