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WTW Texts of Resistance

From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
Length: 29:00

How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive. Read the full description.

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Texts of Resistance

Since the late eighteenth century, writers have addressed the issue of transatlantic slavery. Some of the works are direct calls to abolitionist action; others define resistance more subtly. On this program, John Bugg talks about an eighteenth-century slave narrative, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; Russ Castronovo tells us about Frederick Douglass’s novella, The Heroic Slave; and Natasha Barnes explores The Known World by Edward P. Jones.

Well-suited to Black History Month in February.

Fifteen- and thirty-second promos available.

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Texts of Resistance

Since the late eighteenth century, writers have addressed the issue of transatlantic slavery. Some of the works are direct calls to abolitionist action; others define resistance more subtly. On this program, John Bugg talks about an eighteenth-century slave narrative, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; Russ Castronovo tells us about Frederick Douglass’s novella, The Heroic Slave; and Natasha Barnes explores The Known World by Edward P. Jones.

Well-suited to Black History Month in February.

Fifteen- and thirty-second promos available.