Caught between two opinions Africans, Europeans, and Indians in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7727348
AutoresChristopher Apap (New York University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas5-24
Fecha de publicación2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/1477570006061307
OpenAlexW1979831230
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

Even before Paul Gilroy's theorizing of the Black Atlantic, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African (1789) had been seen as a crucial illustration of the radical possibilities available for enterprising Africans in the 18th-century Atlantic world. Instead of reading the binary opposition of Africa and England or of colonizer and colonized, this article attempts to complicate binary understandings of Equiano by attending to the intersections of Africa, Europe, and the Mosquito Coast in Equiano's narrative. A more nuanced understanding of Equiano's narrative self-construction allows us to not only reappraise his place in the canon but to develop a more accurate model for understanding race and identity in the long 18th-century

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Atlantic World · Binary opposition · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis