The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge her gifts as a writer,a repudiation that eventually inspired generations of black writers to build an extraordinary body of literature in their efforts to prove him wrong. In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley , Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal…
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- ISBN: 978-0-465-01850-5
- EAN: 9780465018505
- Produktnummer: 5067704
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H19.0 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.9 cm 148 g
- Gewicht: 148
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University. His books include coloured People, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, and In Search of Our Roots. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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