Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
The text of Equiano's narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.
About the Author
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro-American Studies and Chair of History of American Civilization at Harvard University. He is the author of Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explora-tions of Interracial Literature, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture, and Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones: The Quest for a "Populist Modernism." His edited works include The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations and Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America.