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Clotel or the President's Daughter » Read Now
by William Wells Brown, Joan E. Cashin. 192 pgs.

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Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American. William Wells Brown, a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, was well known for his abolitionist activities. In Clotel, the author focuses on the experiences of a slave woman: Brown treats the themes of gender, race, and...
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Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American. William Wells Brown, a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, was well known for his abolitionist activities. In Clotel, the author focuses on the experiences of a slave woman: Brown treats the themes of gender, race, and slavery in distinctive ways, highlighting the mutability of identity as well as the absurdities and cruelties of slavery. The plot includes several mulatto characters, such as Clotel, who live on the margins of the black and white worlds, as well as a woman who dresses as a man to escape bondage; a white woman who is enslaved; and a famous white man who is mistaken for a mulatto. In her Introduction, scholar Joan E. Cashin highlights the most interesting features of this novel and its bold approach to gender and race relations. This volume, the latest in the American History Through Literature series, is suitable for a variety of undergraduate courses in American history, cultural history, women's studies, and slavery.
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Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper » Read Now
by John Ernest. 272 pgs.

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An examination of how six prominent African-American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world.
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Where in the World Is William Wells Brown? Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the DNA of African-American Literary History, in American Literary History » Read Now
by Ann Ducille. 20 pgs.

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...Where in the World Is William Wells Brown? Thomas Jefferson, Sally...1853 runaway slave William Wells Brown published what is generally...this historical hoopla is William...
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Clotel and the Historicity of the Anecdote, in MELUS » Read Now
by Lee Schweninger. 16 pgs.

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...Narrative of Slave Life (1853), William Wells Brown makes use of several authenticating...PMLA 105 (1990): 23-34. Brown, William Wells. Clotel; Or The Presidents...Phylon...
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The "Unguarded Expressions of the Feelings of the Negroes": Gender, Slave Resistance, and William Wells Brown's Revisions of 'Clotel,' in African American Review » Read Now
by M. Giulia Fabi. 16 pgs.

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...Clotel (1853, 1864, and 1867), William Wells Brown divided and differently partitioned...of the authors Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave (1847)...
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Cross-Dressing and Forgetfulness of Self in William Wells Brown's Clotel, in College Literature » Read Now
by Michael Berthold. 11 pgs.

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...Extravagance in dress," wrote William Wells Brown in the 1880 My Southern...from Brown ( Farrison, William Wells Brown 134-37). In Great Britain...time in Europe (...
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Black American Prose Writers: Before the Harlem Renaissance ("William Wells Brown (c. 1814-1884)" begins on p. 10) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 159 pgs.

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Intimate and Authentic Economies: The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin (Chap. 1 "Free Labor and Intimate Capital: The Postwar Autobiographies of Douglass, Brown, and Washington") » Read Now
by Tom Nissley. 202 pgs.

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The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Douglass, Horatio Alger and James Weldon Johnson, and the work of silent comedians like Charlie Chaplin...
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The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Douglass, Horatio Alger and James Weldon Johnson, and the work of silent comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. Thomas Nissley examines the number of texts, from Reconstruction-era autobiographies to the films of the 30s, to show the sustained market value of status and personal authenticity in the era of contract and free labour.
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The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (Chap. 1 "Narrative Interruptions of Panic: Reverse Acculturation in the Early African American Fiction of William Wells Brown and Harriet Wilson") » Read Now
by Stephen P. Knadler. 249 pgs.

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Stephen P. Knadler is an assistant professor of English at Spelman College.
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Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft ("William Wells Brown and Clotel; or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States" begins on p. 124) » Read Now
by Charles J. Heglar. 171 pgs.

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The African American slave narrative is popularly viewed as the story of a lone male's flight from slavery to freedom, best exemplified by the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845). But in stressing Douglass's narrative as a model for the genre, scholars have ignored...
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The African American slave narrative is popularly viewed as the story of a lone male's flight from slavery to freedom, best exemplified by the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845). But in stressing Douglass's narrative as a model for the genre, scholars have ignored the formal and thematic importance of marriage and family in the slave narrative. This book examines the central role of marriage in The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave (1849) and Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1860). In doing so, the volume points to the influence of those narratives on the later fiction of Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Martin Delany, and invites a reexamination of current assumptions about slave narratives.
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The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts (Chap. II "The Era of Effort for Freedom- David Walker, James McCune Smith, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown") » Read Now
by Benjamin Brawley. 370 pgs.

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...Garnet -- Frederick Douglass -- William Wells Brown. 32 III POETRY...tales. Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown called attention to this...GARNET -- FREDERICK...
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African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook ("William Wells Brown (1814-1884)" begins on p. 56) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 416 pgs.

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Chronicling the autobiographical tradition in African American literature from the 18th century to the present, this volume features 66 authors from Maya Angelou to Malcolm X. Alphabetized entries, written by expert contributors, include concise biographies, overviews of autobiographical works and...
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Chronicling the autobiographical tradition in African American literature from the 18th century to the present, this volume features 66 authors from Maya Angelou to Malcolm X. Alphabetized entries, written by expert contributors, include concise biographies, overviews of autobiographical works and themes, reviews of critical receptions, and bibliographies.
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("William Wells Brown (1814-1884)" begins on p. 64) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.

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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th...
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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have recently been published. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the critical response to the author, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.
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