The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano : or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

基本信息

By (author) Olaudah Equiano

Format:Paperback / softback 336 pages

Publisher:Random House USA Inc

Imprint:Modern Library Inc

ISBN:9780375761157

Published: 15 May 2004

Classifications:Biography: general, Slavery & abolition of slavery

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:244g

Dimensions:203 x 133 x 19mm 

Firm Sale:Yes

Pub. Country:United States

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書籍簡介

在這本令人震驚的十八世紀回憶錄中，奧拉達·伊奎亞諾(Olaudah Equiano)講述了他非凡的人生故事，從他小時候在非洲被綁架並被賣為奴隸開始，到他作為英國反奴隸制倡導者而獲得聲譽時達到*。羅伯特·裏德-法爾(Robert Reid-Pharr)在序言中寫道，這段敍述“是一座驚人美麗的紀念碑，見證了技巧、狡猾和普通的好運的驚人結合，正是這些讓他贏得了自由，寫出了自己的故事，並獲得了國際聲望。”“他提醒我們，大西洋兩岸的現代知識分子，無論黑人、白人還是其他什麼人，都存在着同樣的擔憂。”

這本現代圖書館的經典平裝書的文本是從1794年的第九版設定的，反映了作者對他的傑作的變化。

In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative “is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence,” writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. “He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic.”

The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the author’s final changes to his masterwork.

作者簡介

介紹人簡介:羅伯特·裏德-法爾是美國早期非裔美國文學的著名學者之一，是紐約城市大學研究生中心的英語教授。他住在布魯克林。

編輯簡介:SHELLY EVERSLEY是巴魯克學院美國文學的助理教授，專攻非裔美國人文學和文化。她是《融合及其不滿》一書的作者，也是《種族與性》一書的合著者。

About the Introducer: ROBERT REID-PHARR, one of the country’s leading scholars of early African-American literature, is a professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives in Brooklyn.

About the Editor: SHELLY EVERSLEY is an assistant professor of American literature at Baruch College, specializing in African-American literature and culture. She is the author of Integration and Its Discontents and coeditor of Race and Sexuality.