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Surprizing Narrative : Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Surprizing Narrative Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography - Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies
Author: Angelo Costanzo
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 narrator, the picaresque character, the Biblical typological hero, the strong speaking voice, and th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780313256332
ISBN-10: 0313256330
Publication Date: 5/14/1987
Pages: 156
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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