How Slave Narratives Influenced American Literature: A Source for Herman Melville's Billy Budd - Hardcover

Rolando Leodore Jorif

9780773448261: How Slave Narratives Influenced American Literature: A Source for Herman Melville's Billy Budd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773448268 ISBN 13: 9780773448261

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr, 2009

This study investigates how Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville depict patterns of human resistance to domination in institutions like slavery and in practices like impressment.

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Review:

"[In] eschew[ing] more traditional approaches to the intersection between the literature and the law in this maritime tale and to focus on the ethoi of forgiveness and agape... Jorif offers us a contrapuntal approach to the usual history of slavery and law in early modern America." - Prof. Jon-Christian Suggs The City University of New York "... magnificently bundles together American freedoms, human rights, racial oppression, sexual exploitation, torture, and Christian love in a paradoxical compendium of literary analysis linking Melville, Douglass, and Stowe." - Prof. Francis N. Elmi Borough of Manhattan Community College"

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