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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-2899-2
- EAN: 9780786728992
- Produktnummer: 22912830
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 127 KB
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Colored People, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, In Search of Our Roots, and the American Book Award-winning The Signifying Monkey. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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