Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Part 1 (1789) ECCO
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Part 2 (1789) ECCO
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a short biography of Olaudah Equiano, which could be useful for a first orientation
a very interesting and detailed page: it includes a map of Equianos travels,an annotated bibliography of Equiano studies, extracts from "the Interesting Narrative" and this page discusses the question of Equiano´s place of birth. Furthermore we can find other useful weblinks on Equiano. A very useful page for research on Equiano.
this page includes a short summary and a timeline of the life of Olaudah Equiano. This page offers some starting points for interpretation and discussion and also some weblinks.
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MLA
Equiano and Religion:
The last paragraph is about religion. Gives some interesting facts.
And some other articles which might be interesting and fit into the topic as well, all of them available via “Fernleihe“: Elrod, Eileen Razzari. Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2008. xii, 230 pp.
Shlensky, Lincoln. "'To Rivet and Record': Conversion and Collective Memory in Equiano's Interesting Narrative". Carey, Brycchan (ed. and introd.) and Kitson, Peter J. (ed. and introd.) Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807. Cambridge, England: Brewer, 2007. pp. 110-29.
Elrod, Eileen Razzari. "Moses and the Egyptian: Religious Authority in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative". African American Review: 35.3 ( 2001 Fall), pp. 409-25.
Equiano and Slave Trade:
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v040/40.2boulukos.html Very interesting, about the debate concerning slave trade.
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3041901 Just an abstract about slavery. The whole text is available if wanted.
Again some articles which are available via “Fernleihe“: Boulukos, George. The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2008. viii, 280 pp.
Collins, Janelle. "Passage to Slavery, Passage to Freedom: Olaudah Equiano and the Sea". Novel: A Forum on Fiction: 39.1 ( 2005 Fall), pp. 209-23.
Bozeman, Terry S.. "Interstices, Hybridity, and Identity: Olaudah Equiano and the Discourse on the African Slave Trade". Studies in the Literary Imagination: 36.2 ( 2003 Fall), pp. 61-70.
This article is not available via “Fernleihe“, but it sounded so interesting that I do want to mention it. It’s mostly about what the title sais and has an interesting view on slavery: DeRosa, Robin. "Nothing in the Trunk: Parody in the Narrative of Olaudah Equiano". DeRosa, Robin (ed. and introd.) Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2006. pp. 68-82.
Equiano in general:
These articles are about the Narrative or Equiano in general and also available via “Fernleihe“: Earley, Samantha Manchester. "Writing from the Center or the Margins? Olaudah Equiano's Writing Life Reassessed". African Studies Review: 46.3 (2003 Dec.), pp. 1-16.
Carretta, Vincent. Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 2005. xxiv, 436 pp.
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