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) From: Early American Literature | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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 ...

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