Clotel, or the President's DaughterRoutledge, 16 sept 2016 - 208 páginas Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American. William Wells Brown, a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, was well known for his abolitionist activities. In Clotel, the author focuses on the experiences of a slave woman: Brown treats the themes of gender, race, and slavery in distinctive ways, highlighting the mutability of identity as well as the absurdities and cruelties of slavery. The plot includes several mulatto characters, such as Clotel, who live on the margins of the black and white worlds, as well as a woman who dresses as a man to escape bondage; a white woman who is enslaved; and a famous white man who is mistaken for a mulatto. In her Introduction, scholar Joan E. Cashin highlights the most interesting features of this novel and its bold approach to gender and race relations. This volume, the latest in the American History Through Literature series, is suitable for a variety of undergraduate courses in American history, cultural history, women's studies, and slavery. |
Índice
The Parson Poet | |
A Night in the Parsons Kitchen | |
A Slave Hunting Parson | |
A Free Woman Reduced to Slavery | |
ToDay a Mistress ToMorrow a Slave | |
Death of the Parson | |
Retaliation | |
The Liberator | |
The Slave Market | |
The Religious Teacher | |
The Poor Whites South | |
The Separation | |
The Man of Honour | |
The Young Christian | |
Escape of Clotel | |
A True Democrat | |
The Christians Death | |
A Ride in a StageCoach | |
Truth Stranger than Fiction | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Clotel Or the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United ... William Wells Brown Vista previa restringida - 1996 |
Clotel, Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the ... William Wells Brown Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
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