American Literature / Unit 9 AML 0812 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Olaudah Equiano's Place in the Tradition
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The idea
Equiano's narrative of seventeen eighty-nine set the pattern the American writers inherited: capture, the passage, a series of owners, self-purchase, and a public argument built from a private life. The American narratives of the eighteen forties and fifties are its descendants and its rivals.
In practice
The pattern the later books inherit.
Where people slip
The tradition is Atlantic before it is American.
Your place on the trail
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