The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
$32.11
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2004
Summary
This important 18th-century slave narrative could be described as the British version of Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom. Our unique features include an Introduction by Professor Robert Reid-Pharr, and newly commissioned endnotes.
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375761157 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375761152 |
| Author: | Olaudah Equiano, Shelly Eversley, Robert Reid-Pharr |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
Critics Review
“Equiano’s Narrative was so richly structured that it became the prototype of the nineteenth-century slave narrative.” -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“Equiano’s Narrative was so richly structured that it became the prototype of the nineteenth-century slave narrative.”
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Olaudah Equiano
About the Introducer:
ROBERT REID-PHARR, one of the country’s leading scholars of early African-American literature, is a professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives in Brooklyn.
About the Editor:
SHELLY EVERSLEY is an assistant professor of American literature at Baruch College, specializing in African-American literature and culture. She is the author of Integration and Its Discontents and coeditor of Race and Sexuality.
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