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Article: Ethnic self-dramatization and technologies of travel in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789).(Critical Essay)
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- Early American Literature
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- January 1, 2004
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To read an eighteenth-century slave narrative in the twenty-first century is in many ways a very predictable act of communication. Euro-American scholars have grown used to finding truth in texts previously excluded from the canon of Western culture, but then to redefine the margins as an unanticipated center has always been a conventional way of canon building. It should not come as a suprise, therefore, if this professedly unorthodox more breeds its own orthodoxies. In fact, most people working in the humanities have probably experienced the irony of academic conferences where concepts such as difference, hybridity, and heterogeneity are praised with a uniformity and ...
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... ... slumbers here." Gustavus Vassa, whose real name ... given the name of Gustavus Vassa, after the king ... movement and wrote The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Anna ...
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