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Digression, Slavery, and Failing to Return in the Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 39, Number 4, Fall 2016
- pp. 511-534
- 10.1353/bio.2016.0063
- Article
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Abstract
This essay investigates Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke (1845) for its digressions. In studying Clarke’s resistance to the “back there” of slavery, this essay locates digression as a topos for enunciating the abstract self and the self-in-relation, which achieve legibility in Clarke’s narrative through rupture, postponement, and misdirection.
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