Teaching Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives

Contents

Contents foreword ix Vincent Carretta Acknowledgments xiii introduction xv Eric D. Lamore Part 1 Foundational Discussions on Teaching The Interesting Narrative history, Oratory, and God in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative 1 Adam Potkay Equiano lite 25 Srinivas Aravamudan Domesticating Equiano’s Interesting Narrative 33 Roxann Wheeler Part 2 Special Topics in Teaching The Interesting Narrative Olaudah Equiano, Autobiography, and ideas of Culture 45 Sarah Brophy flat Equiano: A Transatlantic Approach to Teaching The Interesting Narrative 69 Jessica L. Hollis finding a home for Equiano 95 Tess Chakkalakal loving the Unstable Text and Times of Equiano’s Narrative: Using Carretta’s Biography in the Classroom 119 Emily M. N. Kugler Part 3 Pedagogy, African American Studies, and The Interesting Narrative When young Minds read Equiano’s Narrative 139 Angelo Costanzo “Profitable reading”: literacy, Christianity, and Constitutionalism in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative 153 John Saillant Equiano and One Canon of African American literature 171 Phillip M. Richards Metaphysics of Presence in Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative 191 Cedrick May Part 4 Pedagogy, American Studies, and The Interesting Narrative “Neither a Saint, a hero, Nor a Tyrant”: Teaching Equiano Comparatively 215 Keri Holt Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and the Difficulties of Teaching the Early American literature Survey Course 239 Michael Pringle The Difference Teaching Equiano Makes: Notes on Teaching The Interesting Narrative in the Undergraduate American literature Survey 255 Lisa M. Logan Captives, Slaves, and Writers: Teaching The Narrative of Olaudah Equiano as Captivity Narrative 275 Abby Chandler Transatlantic Transformations: Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative and Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge 293 Eric D. Lamore Contributors 313 index 319 ...