Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 239 pages)
Edition:
Reproduktion [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
9781474467971
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1474467970
Series Statement:
Early Black writers
Content:
The Writers. 1. Briton Hammon. 2. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (James Albert). 3. Ignatius Sancho. 4. Ottobah Cugoano (John Stuart). 5. Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa). 6. Julius Soubise. 7. Sierra Leone Settlers. 8. John Henry Naimbanna. 9. Philip Quaque. 10. John Jea. 11. William Davidson. 12. Robert Wedderburn. 13. Mary Prince. 14. Mary Seacole. 15. Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent). 16. James Africanus Horton. 17. John E. Ocansey. 18. Edward Wilmot Blyden. 19. J.J. Thomas.
Content:
Containing extracts from all the major Afro-British writers and many early Black American, West African and Caribbean writers who spent time in Britain, this anthology is a sparkling introduction to the rich tradition of Black British writing. A general introduction to the anthology discusses the beginnings of Black literature in Britain during the period of Abolition. Each author in the anthology also has an individual introduction which briefly examines the author and the period in which he or she was writing, as well as the extract itself. The anthology is drawn from autobiographies, slave narratives, unpublished letters, oral accounts and public records, and represents the work of people such as Equiano, Cugoano, Sancho, Gronniosaw, Robert Wedderburn, James Africanus Horton, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Harriet Jacobus, Edward Wilmot Blyden and John E. Ocansey
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-239)
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Black writers in Britain, 1760-1890 Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1991
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
URL:
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Author information:
Dabydeen, David 1955-
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