Narrative of the Life of Olaudiah Equiano

9780393974942

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Olaudah Equiano

Genre African Americans

Format Paperback

Dimensions 5.20 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Pages 384

Publisher Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

Publication Date December 2000

ISBN 9780393974942

Book ISBN 10 0393974944

About Book

The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.

It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade.
"Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards, Charles T. Davis, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Angelo Costanzo, Catherine Obianju Acholonu, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Geraldine Murphy, Adam Potkay, and Robert J. Allison. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Reviews

Booknews

Olaudah Equiano's 1789 narrative tells the remarkable story of his childhood in Africa, his kidnapping and subsequent years as a slave and seaman, and his eventual road to freedom in the Caribbean and in England. The text reprinted here is that of the 1789 first edition, along with explanatory notes. The book includes letters, essays, and other documents from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as contemporary and modern criticism, plus a chronology. Sollors teaches English literature and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, where he also chairs the Department of History of American Civilization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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