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Article: Moses and the Egyptian: Religious Authority in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative.(Critical Essay)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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From the first image that greeted readers of his book,
Olaudah Equlano presented the self of his 1789 autobiographical narrative as a pious Christian, one whose religious conversion meant a kind of freedom as significant as his manumission from slavery. In the striking frontispiece portrait Equiano sits with biblical text in hand, insisting--in his visual as in his textual presentations of himself--that the Christianity he embraces is the defining feature of his life-story. He responds, as Susan Marren has suggested, to two paradoxical imperatives: one, to write himself into creation as a speaking subject and, two, to write an antislavery polemic (94). At the ...
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