Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics write by John C. Shields. This book was released on 2010-08-19. Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. ... It will help rejuvenate the study of Wheatley and will be an exciting contribution to scholarly discourse on Wheatley's poetry."--Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first.
New Essays on Phillis Wheatley
New Essays on Phillis Wheatley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Essays on Phillis Wheatley write by John C. Shields. This book was released on 2011-05-30. New Essays on Phillis Wheatley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such dense, intellectual work. In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact of African American literature have been reconceived. Fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. --from publisher description.
The Black Romantic Revolution
The Black Romantic Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Romantic Revolution write by Matt Sandler. This book was released on 2020-09-08. The Black Romantic Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers—enslaved and free—allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment of possibility. These Black writers borrowed from the European tradition of Romanticism—lyric poetry, prophetic visions--to write, speak, and sing their hopes for what freedom might mean. At the same time, they voiced anxieties about the expansion of global capital and US imperial power in the aftermath of slavery. They also focused on the ramifications of slavery's sexual violence. Authors like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, George Moses Horton, Albery Allson Whitman, and Joshua McCarter Simpson conceived the Civil War as a revolutionary upheaval on par with Europe's stormy Age of Revolutions. The Black Romantic Revolution proposes that the Black Romantics' cultural innovations have shaped Black radical culture to this day, from the blues and hip hop to Black nationalism and Black feminism. Their expressions of love and rage, grief and determination, dreams and nightmares, still echo into our present.
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poems of Phillis Wheatley write by Phillis Wheatley. This book was released on 2012-03-15. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet
Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet write by Wallis C. Baxter III. This book was released on 2022-05-04. Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley’s poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative process. The lyrical expressions of Wheatley’s poetry unlock the spiritual impressions on her heart. The author sets up the racial dynamics of Wheatley’s time and her engagement with those politics. As a preacher, Wheatley combats the immoral undercurrent that erodes the community’s social, economic, and spiritual foundation as well as its political systems. The author positions Wheatley as one uniquely qualified to address the hypocrisy within her world and, by implication, present-day society by calling for immersion into a radical understanding of love and justice, resulting in a renewed hope for equality and a pathway toward equity.
