Meditations on history: The middle passage in the Afro-Hispanic literary imagination

From: Afro - Hispanic Review | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: DeCosta-Willis, Miriam | Copyright information

Olaudah Equiano's gripping tale of captivity and emancipation, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, published in 1789, is the paradigmatic text of the Middle Passage experience. Related in the voice and from the point of view of a once-enslaved Igbo, it helped shape the conventions of the crossing narrative, its themes, motifs, and rhetorical strategies. When Equiano writes "I have been a witness" (84), he consciously confirms the veracity a...

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