The Age Of Phillis

Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819579515

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The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Pdf

In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history. mothering #1 Yaay, Someplace in the Gambia, c. 1753 after the after-birth is delivered the mother stops holding her breath the mid-wife gives what came before her just-washed pain her insanity pain an undeserved pain a God-given pain oh oh oh pain drum-talking pain witnessing pain Allah a mother offers You this gift prays You find it acceptable her living pain her creature pain her pretty-little-baby pain

Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819579492

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The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Pdf

In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history. mothering #1 Yaay, Someplace in the Gambia, c. 1753 after the after-birth is delivered the mother stops holding her breath the mid-wife gives what came before her just-washed pain her insanity pain an undeserved pain a God-given pain oh oh oh pain drum-talking pain witnessing pain Allah a mother offers You this gift prays You find it acceptable her living pain her creature pain her pretty-little-baby pain

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 014042430X

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Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions--including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Harmon, and Francis Williams. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486115290

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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Author : Maryann N. Weidt
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822589136

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Revolutionary Poet by Maryann N. Weidt Pdf

Taken from her family in Africa at the age of seven, Phillis Wheatley arrived in Boston as a slave in 1761. After she was purchased by the Wheatley family, Phillis quickly learned to speak and read English. The bright young girl soon began writing poetry. By 1771, her poems had been published in newspapers all over the colonies, and critics were praising the "extraordinary negro poetess." In this engaging biography, author Maryann Weidt tells the story of how a young slave girl in revolutionary Boston became an internationally famous poet and the first black American to publish a book.

Author : John C. Shields
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781572337053

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Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics by John C. Shields Pdf

"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. ... It will help rejuvenate the study of Wheatley and will be an exciting contribution to scholarly discourse on Wheatley's poetry."--Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first.

Author : Vincent Carretta
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820346649

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Phillis Wheatley by Vincent Carretta Pdf

Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784), who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race or background--to do so in America.

Author : Afua Cooper
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525310867

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My Name Is Phillis Wheatley by Afua Cooper Pdf

This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numerous sharks follow the ship, feeding on the corpses of slaves thrown overboard. Weakened by the voyage and near death in a Boston slave market, Wheatley is bought by a kind family who nurses her back to health and teaches her to read and write. Soon her mistress recognizes that the girl is a quick learner and talented. At the age of 12, a torrent of poetry begins to flow out of Wheatley. Proud of her achievements, her mistress organizes readings in Boston's finest parlors and drawing rooms, and Wheatley's fame spreads. But even when many in Boston are calling her a prodigy and a genius, some remain unsure that a slave should be able to write, much less write poetry. When Phillis travels to London she is a media sensation, feted by the cream of English society. A book of her poems is published, and she finally gains her freedom. This amazing story, wide in scope, is based on fact and told convincingly from young Wheatley's point of view.

Author : Rinaldo Walcott
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771964081

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On Property by Rinaldo Walcott Pdf

Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award • Longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care.

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101071961807

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819575432

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The Glory Gets by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Pdf

Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018) In her three previous, award-winning collections of blues poetry, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers has explored themes of African American history, Southern culture, and intergenerational trauma. Now, in her fourth and most accomplished collection, Jeffers turns to the task of seeking and reconciling the blues and its three movements—identification, exploration, and resolution—with wisdom. Poems in The Glory Gets ask, “What happens on the road to wisdom? What now in this bewildering place?” Using the metaphor of “gets”—the concessional returns of living—Jeffers travels this fraught yet exhilarating journey, employing unexpected improvisations while navigating womanhood. The spirit and spirituality of her muse, the late poet Lucille Clifton, guide the poet through the treacherous territories other women have encountered and survived yet kept secret from their daughters. An online reader’s companion will be available.

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781458715302

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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge her gifts as a writer a repudiation that eventually inspired generations of black writers to build an extraordinary body of literature in their efforts to prove him wrong. In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition. Writing with all the lyricism and critical skill that place him at the forefront of American letters, Gates brings to life the characters, debates, and controversy that surrounded Wheatley in her day and ours.

Author : Molly Aloian
Publisher : Understanding the American Rev
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778708144

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Phillis Wheatley by Molly Aloian Pdf

Kidnapped from West Africa and sold as a slave in Boston in 1761, the young girl who became Phillis Wheatley grew up to become an icon during the period of the American Revolution. Given the last name of her owner, Wheatley lived as a household slave but was encouraged to read and write. Readers will get a close-up look at this young African woman who became a celebrated poet of her time, writing elegies, or tributes to people she admired, as well as poems that used the themes of America's struggle for independence.

Author : Vincent Carretta,Philip Gould
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183206

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Genius in Bondage by Vincent Carretta,Philip Gould Pdf

Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment on definitions of freedom and liberty, and identify ways in which black literature both engaged with and rebelled against Anglo-American culture.

Author : Joanna Brooks
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195160789

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American Lazarus by Joanna Brooks Pdf

This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of American literary history. It argues that the origins of modern African-American and American Indian literatures emerged at the revolutionary crossroads of religion and racial formation.