Journal article
A SILENT BOOK, SOME KISSES, AND JOHN MARRANT'S NARRATIVE
Criticism (Detroit), Vol.57(1), pp.71-90
12/01/2015
DOI: 10.13110/criticism.57.1.0071
Abstract
"7 In Gates's reading, when John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano, and John Jea revise Gronniosaw's words, they reproduce this suffering and in so doing participate in a collective experience of embodied and ontological suffering or the race-making of African American literature. [...]the result mobilizes an idea of race "as a stable and transhistorical category of identity" that is lived as an experiential and collective way of being mediated through a collective feeling of great suffering.8 Herein lies the origins of this written tradition. Because race does not function as a stable or transhistorical category of identity in early African American literature (though this fact should not deny an emergent racial collectivity), faith makes real their stories and their self-making.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A SILENT BOOK, SOME KISSES, AND JOHN MARRANT'S NARRATIVE
- Creators
- Tara Bynum
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Criticism (Detroit), Vol.57(1), pp.71-90
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- DOI
- 10.13110/criticism.57.1.0071
- ISSN
- 0011-1589
- eISSN
- 1536-0342
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2015
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984397933002771
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