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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. 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 Narrative 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

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In mapping this black diasporic tradition of resistance, Bernier intends not only to reveal the limitations and distortions on record but to complicate the definitions of black heroism that have been restricted by ideological boundaries between heroic and anti-heroic sites and sights of struggle.

Slavery in art. --- Slavery in literature. --- Heroes in art. --- Heroes in literature. --- Blacks in art. --- Blacks in literature. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Negroes in art --- Negroes in literature --- Blacks in art --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature. --- Black people in art. --- Enslaved persons in literature

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Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction. Exceptionally able and ambitious, these men and women won repute among the educated middle classes in the Southwest, South and the nation, even amid sectional tensions. Although they sometimes described liberty in the abstract, more often these authors discussed its practical significance: what it meant for people to make life's important choices freely and to be responsible for the results. They publicly insisted that freedom caused progress, but hidden doubts clouded this optimistic vision. Ultimately, their association with the oppression of slavery dimmed their hopes for human improvement, and fear distorted their responses to the sectional crisis.

Littérature américaine --- Écrivains --- Liberté --- Esclavage --- American literature --- Authors, American --- Politics and literature --- Whites --- Liberty in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Pensée politique et sociale --- Dans la littérature. --- History and criticism. --- Southern States --- Political and social views. --- History --- Attitudes --- Intellectual life --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- American authors --- Political aspects --- American South --- American Southeast --- Dixie (U.S. : Region) --- Former Confederate States --- South, The --- Southeast (U.S.) --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- United States, Southern --- Arts and Humanities --- Enslaved persons in literature

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Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. The book enriches our understanding of French and Atlantic history in the revolutionary and postrevolutionary years when Haiti was menaced with the re-establishment of slavery and when class, race, and gender identities were being renegotiated. It offers in-depth readings of works by Germaine de Stae̘l, Claire de Duras, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. In addition to these now canonical French authors, it calls attention to the lives and works of two lesser-known but important figureś€"Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin. Approaching these five women through the prism of paternal authority, Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves explores the empathy that daughters show toward blacks as well as their resistance against the oppression exercised by male colonists and other authority figures. The works by these French women antislavery writers bear significant similarities, which the book explores, with twentieth and twenty-first century Francophone texts. These womeń€™s contributions allow us to move beyond the traditional boundaries of exclusively male accounts by missionaries, explorers, functionaries, and military or political figures. They remind us of the imperative for ever-renewed gender research in the colonial archive and the need to expand conceptions of French womeń€™s writing in the nineteenth century as being a small minority corpus. Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves contributes to an understanding of colonial fiction, Caribbean writing, romanticism, and feminism. It undercuts neat distinctions between the cultures of France and its colonies and between nineteenth and twentieth-century Francophone writing.

French literature --- Antislavery movements --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Literature --- Abolitionism --- Anti-slavery movements --- Slavery --- Human rights movements --- Negroes in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Colonies. --- History. --- Staël, --- Dard, Charlotte-Adelaïde. --- Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline, --- Duras, Claire de Durfort, --- Doin, Sophie, --- De Coëtnempren de Kersaint de Durfort, Claire Louise Rose Bonne, --- De Duras, Claire Louise Rose Bonne de Coëtnempren de Kersaint de Durfort, --- De Durfort, Claire, --- De Durfort, Claire Louise Rose Bonne de Coëtnempren de Kersaint, --- De Durfort-Duras, Claire de Kersaint, --- De Kersaint, Claire, --- De Kersaint de Durfort, Claire Louise Rose Bonne de Coëtnempren, --- Duras, Claire Louise Rose Bonne de Coëtnempren de Kersaint de Durfort, --- Duras, --- Durfort, Claire Louise Rose Bonne de Coëtnempren de Kersaint de, --- Durfort-Duras, Claire de Karsaint, --- Kersaint, Claire Louise de, --- Auteur d'Ourika, --- Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline Félicité Josèphe, --- Desbordes-Valmore, --- Valmore, Marceline Desbordes-, --- Desbordes, Marceline Félicité Josèphe, --- Dard Picard, Charlotter-Adelaïde --- Picard, Chralotte-Adelaïde Dard --- De Staël, --- Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Necker, Anne-Louise-Germaine, --- Necker, Germaine, --- Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Staël, Germaine de, --- Staël-Holstein, Anna-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Staël-Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Stalʹ, Zhermena de, --- Стаэль Голстеинъ, --- Staël --- de Staël, Germaine --- de Staël, --- Madame de Staël --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature. --- Fathers in literature. --- History --- Valmore, Desbordes de, --- Enslaved persons in literature