Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic

Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cul

Author: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 11/09/2001
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.36w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780813122038

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2002 pg. 1583

About the Author
Carretta, Vincent: - Vincent Carretta, professor of English at the University of Maryland, is the author of several books on eighteenth-century literature and, most recently, the editor of Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings.

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