Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (Bedford Cultural Editions)

Brown, William Wells Wells; Levine, Robert [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0312621078 / ISBN 13: 9780312621070

Edité par Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010

N° de réf. du vendeur 0312621078-4-31932387

Synopsis :

Clotel; or The Presidents Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of Clotel is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when he wrote his novel.   The streamlined second edition includes an updated introduction that incorporates the explosion of scholarship on the novel over the past decade, when proof of the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings emerged. In addition to their attention to this relationship, the cultural documents focus more directly on the texts about slavery and race that Brown drew on, and on Browns own controversial approach to writing and revising Clotel.

À propos de l'auteur: William Wells Brown; Edited by Robert S. Levine

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter: A ...
Éditeur : Bedford/St. Martin's
Date d'édition : 2010
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Fair
Edition : 2ème Édition