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

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

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