"Far from "Gambia's Golden Shore
The Black in the Late Eighteenth-Century American Imaginative Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3345580 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mukhtar Ali Isani (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353 |
| Publication date | 1979-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1943381 |
| OpenAlex | W2320691333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
While illustrating the irony of the condition of the blacks in early America, this epitaph also reflects their image in the American mind, as both the exotic natives of a distant continent and the familiar slaves in the New World. In imaginative literature published in America before the nineteenth century, the blacks appear largely in antislavery writing. As literary personae, they were created with a sentimental depiction of their African past. Satire, irony, pathos, and ridicule proved potent tools in the hands of the mostly unknown writers who depicted the Negro in tales, fragments, visions, dialogues, and verse.' The appearance of such writing coincided with the late eighteenthcentury flurry of political and social agitation over the issue of slavery both in England and in America. In mock disgust, one writer in the guise of a supporter of slavery damned the likes of William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, William Cowper, and Hannah More for creating on both sides of
Ancient history · Shore · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Geology · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Oceanography · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2010 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |