Literary biography

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 'It was said to me, "Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; 'tis not best that you seem too learned."' Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-95), a man who was born into slavery in Maryland and who went on to become the most famous antislavery author, orator, philosopher, essaysist, historian, intellectual, statesman and freedom-fighter in US history. An instant bestseller, Douglass's autobiography tells the story of his early life as lived in 'bondage' and of his later life as lived in a 'freedom' that was in name only. Recognizing that his body and soul were bought and sold by white slaveholders in the US South, he soon realized his story was being traded by white northern antislavery campaigners. Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is a literary, intellectual and philosophical tour-de-force in which he betrays his determination not only to speak but to write 'just the word that seemed to me the word to be written by me.' This new edition examines Douglass's biography, literary strategies and political activism alongside his depiction of Black women's lives and his narrative histories of Black heroism. This volume also reproduces Frederick Douglass's only work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, published in 1853. Features Summary My Bondage and My Freedom is the second of Frederick Douglass's full-length autobiographies. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. Author Frederick Douglass (Author), Celeste-Marie Bernier (Editor) Publisher Oxford UniversityPress Release date 20191031 Pages 432 ISBN 0-19-882071-2 ISBN 13 978-0-19-882071-0

About the product 8vo; pictorial boards; unpaginated (but pp. 72); includes 116 captioned photographs and facsimiles. Near fine condition. Afrikaans text. A pictorial biography of the Afrikaans literary figure who, alongside Elizabeth Eybers, has attained, arguably, the most solid reputation as a poet both locally and internationally."Na'n aanvanklik aarselende groei in die twintigerjare uit die tradisie van die volksliedagtige en eenvoudige liefdesvers ontwikkel Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (1906-1970) in die dertigerjare tot die leidende figuur van sy generasie en word hy as digter en essayis een van die heel grootste persoonlikhede wat die Afrikaanse letterkunde nog geken het."- Kannemeyer: Die Afrikaanse Literatuur 1652-1987, p. 134 Skrywers in beeld: N. P. van Wyk Louw 11 Junie 1906 - 18 Junie 1970 (Books)