...Andrea Haslanger Abstract This short piece reads two of Phillis Wheatley’s elegies to children to reflect on how they represent the dead as speaking rather than silent. It considers how the deceased’s speech invokes different categories of the child, overlaying political and theological ideas about...

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...://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sfTkVeVzhg&t=3s . Bynum Tara . “ Phillis Wheatley on Friendship .” Legacy 31 , no. 1 ( 2014 ): 42 – 51 . Calamur Krishnadev . “ Ferguson Documents: Officer Darren Wilson’s Testimony .” National Public Radio , November 25 , 2014 . https://www.npr.org...

...Lindsey Claire Smith Works Cited Erkkila Betsy . “ Phillis Wheatley on the Streets of Revolutionary Boston and in the Atlantic World .” Early American Literature 56 , no. 2 ( 2021 ): 351 – 72 . Hayes Chris . “ The Attack on the Capitol with Ta-Nehisi Coates .” Why...

... on insurrectionary activity, “‘The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You’: Robert Wedderburn’s Unfinished Revolution” ( The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation , Fall 2020), by Shelby Johnson, and “Provocation: Phillis Wheatley on the Streets of Revolutionary Boston and in the Atlantic World” ( Early American...

...William H. Sherman Copyright © 2009 Regents of the University of Colorado 2009 O f A nagrammatology W illiam h . S h e r m a n . . . one plus one makes at least three. Jacques Derrida, O f G ram m atology' In 1862, Henry B. Wheatley published what remains the only book-length study ever...

... writing the self into humanity: Pamela’s epistles, Phillis Wheatley’s poems. Through analyses of utopia, confession, and the epistolary novel three essays invite us to situate #MeToo in the history of this indeterminate condition and to draw on the practices of literary criticism to find a path forward...

... print culture w ith a com bination of close textual analy­ sis and of relevant economic, political, social, and biographical context. Am erican Lazarus listens to Phillis W heatley and Samuel Occum in conversation and realizes that some of Wheatley's most candid and cutting comments on slavery and human...

... and graphic novels to public art. In “First Words, Last Words” Andrea Haslanger reads the African American poet Phillis Wheatley’s elegies to children, arguing that the poems disrupt or reconfigure the generic expectations of the elegy and the social conventions of the parent-child relationship. By granting...

... Michael T. Marsden (Bowling G reen, Ohio: Bowling G reen U Popular P, 1972) 59. 5 For what remains the most detailed discussion of the earliest versions of the W hittington story as it came to be known (i.e., with the cat), see H enry B. Wheatley, ed., The History of Sir Richard Whittington, by T. H...