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Article: Interstices, hybridity, and identity: Olaudah Equiano and the discourse of the African slave trade.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Long held as one of the seminal slave narratives, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself (1789) continues as a foundation in discussions of "that peculiar institution" and the resulting identities of those involved. Published over a century before W. E. B. Du Bois articulated the ideology of a double consciousness, Equiano's Narrative explores the notion of a hybrid existence. In its awareness of his Africanness and his identity as a Briton (but not an Englishman), (1) Equiano's life remains a testament of his ability to survive as one, neither, and both. One important element to ...
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... ... Walvin. An African's Life: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1799. New York: Continuum, 2000. 220 pp ... and British antislavery has turned his attention to Olaudah Equiano, one of the luminaries of eighteenth-century black ...
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