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Article: "Olaudah Equiano: Representation and Reality": an international one-day conference.
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- Early American Literature
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- September 22, 2003
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Kingston University, UK, 22 March 2003.
Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789) was a bestseller in his day and today his book is once again commercially successful. With a spate of recent editions, the narrative is now widely available to different readerships, and it is studied by general readers as well as by professionals from American Studies, Black Studies, Postcolonial Studies, English literature, history, and other disciplines. The international conference convened by Brycchan Carey with Karen Lipsedge (Kingston University, UK) attracted some 60 delegates as well as many distinguished speakers, who addressed the theme of "Representation and ...