The Life of Olaudah Equiano

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  • Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
  • Carretta, Vincent. "Introduction," in The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.

  • Earley, Samantha Manchester. "Writing from the Center or the Margins? Olaudah Equiano's Writing Life Reassessed," African Studies Review, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Dec., 2003), pp. 1-16.

  • Elrod, Eileen Razzari. "Moses and the Egyptian: Religious Authority in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative," African American Review, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 409-425.

  • Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall. "The Spirit of Trade: Olaudah Equiano's Conversion, Legalism, and the Merchant's Life," African American Review, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 635-647.

  • Kelleter, Frank. "Ethnic Self-Dramatization and Technologies of Travel in 'The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself' (1789)," Early American Literature, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2004), pp. 67-84.

  • Marren, Susan M. "Between Slavery and Freedom: The Transgressive Self in Olaudah Equiano's Autobiography," PMLA, Vol. 108, No. 1 (Jan., 1993), pp. 94-105.

  • Ogude, S.E. "Facts into Fiction: Equiano's Narrative Reconsidered," Research into African Literatures, Vol. 13, No. 1, Special Issue on Nigerian Literature (Spring, 1982), pp. 31-43.

  • Potkay, Adam. "History, Oratory, and God in Equiano's Interesting Narrative," Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Summer, 2001), pp. 601-614.

  • Samuels, Wilfred. "Disguised Voice: The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African," Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1985, pp. 64-69.

  • Wheeler, Roxann. "Domesticating Equiano's Interesting Narrative," Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Summer, 2001), pp. 620-624.

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