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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 18–51.
Published: 01 August 2007
...CATHY N. DAVIDSON Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Anya , Ikechukwu . “Fireworks Fly at Equiano Conference.” Nigerians in America . 29 Mar . 2003 < http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/261/1/Fireworks-fly-at-Equiano-Conference >. Aravamudan...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2023
... intuit how modern humanitarianism's governmentality shares the same screen of sentimentality behind which police segregate the unsettled into legal categories. Chapter 5, on The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), discusses the form of his text in relation to Equiano's elision...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 313–317.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., with examples from Laurence Sterne, Olaudah Equiano, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen, that human emotion belongs to disjointedness and a lack of ease. Gross's efforts require more shadowboxing, digression, and stark juxtaposition than one might expect—unless or until one recognizes Sterne's Sentimental...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2011
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Boulukos’s theories work best in two longer case studies detailing the development
of and resistance to the figure of the grateful slave: Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack (1722) and
Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789). Having
come to the colonies as a slave...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 5–17.
Published: 01 August 2007
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In her essay on The Irlteresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudnh Eqtriano (1789)
Cathy Davidson disinisses evidence that challenges Equiano's claims to having
been born in Africa. She argues that it really doesn't matter whether he falsified
his birthplace or not. Indeed, The Interesting...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 320–323.
Published: 01 August 2011
...
points from traditional scholarship on sovereignty but ends up disputing the efficacy of
the compass itself.
This radical conceptual advance on Elmer’s part permits him (and us) to see how figures
of the racialized sovereign, from Oroonoko and Equiano to Logan and Chingachgook,
work...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 154–157.
Published: 01 May 2007
... rupee is to emigrate to England (121). Festa reads
such tales alongside the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano as well as the commodity tale
in Marx, while confessing that it is "appalling but enlightening to read these sets of texts
together" (112). For example, she quotes a watch: "I remained...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 461–465.
Published: 01 November 2019
...) on vessels crossing the Atlantic from the Old Worlds of Europe, Africa, and Asia to the New Worlds of the Americas” (3). And all were transformed by the passage, as Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative illustrates: “[W]hether an individual wielded the whip, was brutalized by it, resisted it, or, like...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 May 2000
... (14). Bringing to-
gether Olaudah Equiano's lnteresting Narrative of the Life (1789), Granville Sharp's A
Short Sketch of Temporary Regulations lfor the Intended Settlement of Szerra Leone] (1786),
and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-2-3...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 May 2011
... its theory of wholeness and reconnection in
this decidedly African-centered ontology of black being, chapter 2 credits Jean Toomer’s
1923 novel Cane as the urtext for the contemporary novel of slavery. Admittedly, I tend
to think of Olaudah Equiano’s eighteenth-century slave narrative, as well...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to the novels of Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Richardson, Defoe,
Susanna Rowson, Charles Brockden Brown, and Harriet Wilson-as well as Equiano's
narrative and Melville's novella Billy Budd. Doyle contends here that Behn "initiates a
pattern in which the Anglo-colonial woman becomes the figure through...
Journal Article
Novel (2023) 56 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Phillips's Cambridge ( 1991 ), a novel that does have, as one of two protagonists, an enslaved man. The slave Cambridge's section of the novel is, however, a pastiche of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography, with large sections copied directly from this text. Phillips's text demonstrates the hesitation...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Rob . “ Cultural Topology: The Seven Bridges of Königsberg, 1736 .” Theory, Culture and Society 29.4–5 ( 2012 ): 43–57. Sider Jost Jacob . Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano . Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2020 . Smolderen...
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