BOOK: Carretta on Phillis Wheatley
Vincent Carretta. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. via University of Georgia Press: “With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), […]
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ARTICLE: Sanborn on Plagiarism in Clotel
Geoffrey Sanborn. “‘People Will Pay to Hear the Drama’: Plagiarism in Clotel.” African American Review 45, no. 1 (2012): 65–82. Excerpt: It is no secret that William Wells Brown did […]
ARTICLE: McCaskill on William and Ellen Craft’s ‘Partnership’
Barbara McCaskill. “The Profits and the Perils of Partnership in the ‘Thrilling’ Saga of William and Ellen Craft.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38, no. 1 (March 1, […]
Chinua Achebe: 1930-2013
In Depth Africa reports the death of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe: “Foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, is dead. He was 82. Reporters learnt he died last night in a hospital […]
BOOK: Sharpe on the Monstrous Intimacies of Slavery
Christina Sharpe, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Duke University Press Books, 2010. Description from Duke University Press: “Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have […]
BOOK: Chakkalakal on Slave Marriage in the 19th Century
Tess Chakkalakal. Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. From the publisher’s website: Filling a long-standing gap in our knowledge about slave-marriage, […]
BOOK: Dobie on Images of Slavery in 18c French Culture
Madeleine Dobie. Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. From Cornell University Press: “In Trading Places, Madeleine Dobie explores the place of […]
ESSAY: Gates and Ellis on Harriet Wilson, 19th Century Novelist and Spiritualist
Quite a late posting. Many apologies on the hiatus. ~JMJOHNSO For more on Wilson as an entrepreneur see Gabrielle Foreman and Katherine Flynn’s 2009 Boston Globe piece here. Gates, Henry […]
Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea Tackles Women, Slavery in Haiti, New Orleans
Her latest novel, “Island Beneath the Sea,” which Allende began four years ago on Jan. 8, tells the story of Zarité, a slave and concubine in Haiti at the turn […]
