Surprizing Narrative: Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography by Angelo Costanzo

Surprizing Narrative: Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography

Angelo Costanzo

156 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

medium-paced

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This book skillfully examines the many literary devices utilized by the first black writers as they related their slave experiences and fashioned for their own use such literary techniques as the jeremiad sermonic form, the trustworthy omniscient ...

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