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Article: Consuming Africa: geography and identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative.(The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oldaudah Equiano)
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- June 22, 2005
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AT THE END OF THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH Equiano (1789), Olaudah Equiano comments that Africans occupy not only the coasts but "the bowels of Africa." (1) In the eighteenth century, "bowels" was already a common geographical and topographical term for deep interior spaces. In Johnson's Dictionary, the second definition of the word is "The inner part of any thing," and Johnson cites as an example Shakespeare's "bowels of ungrateful Rome" in Coriolanus. (2) Johnson's first definition, though, deals directly with the viscera, particularly the lower alimentary canal (the botulus or sausage of the word's Latin origins): "Intestines; the vessels and organs ...
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