Frederick Douglass’s Prophecies of Abolition: World Literature and the Black Romantic Man of Letters
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DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2018.1487420
Abstract: ABSTRACT Frederick Douglass’s citations of British Romantic poets have recently attracted the attention of scholars working in two modes of Black Studies: transatlantic literary history and political theory. In this essay, I take as my… read more here.
Keywords: literature; frederick douglass; douglass; world literature ... See more keywords
Declaration in Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom
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DOI: 10.1086/710756
Abstract: In this article I develop an account of Frederick Douglass’s use of declaration as an emancipatory mode of political action. An act of declaration compels an audience to acknowledge the declarer as possessing a type… read more here.
Keywords: declaration douglass; declaration; douglass; bondage freedom ... See more keywords
NOBODY KNOWS: OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN THE NARRATIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND OLAUDAH EQUIANO
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DOI: 10.5935/2179-0027.20200079
Abstract: This article intends to analyze the autobiographic narratives by Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano, two important slave narratives, Equiano was born free in Africa, was captured and fled from slavery to live in London; and… read more here.
Keywords: olaudah equiano; narratives frederick; frederick douglass; nobody knows ... See more keywords