William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247)
Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave / Clotel; or, the President's Daughter / The American Fugitive in Europe / The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that made him, like Frederick Douglass, a foundational figure of African American literature. His controversial novel Clotel; or, the President's Daughter (1853), a fictionalized account of the lives and struggles of Thomas Jefferson's black daughters and granddaughters, is the first novel written by an African American. This Library of America volume bring…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-59853-314-9
- EAN: 9781598533149
- Produktnummer: 17567381
- Verlag: Library of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 912 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'099 KB
Über den Autor
EZRA GREENSPAN is Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in Humanities and professor of English at Southern Methodist University. He is the editor of William Wells Brown: A Reader and The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman and is completing a definitive biography of Brown for the bicentennial in 2014.
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