The Age of Phillis

Released on by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
preview-18

  • The Age of Phillis Book Detail

  • Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  • Release Date : 2020-02-20
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Genre : Poetry
  • Pages : 233
  • ISBN 13 : 0819579513
  • File Size : 88,88 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers PDF Summary

Book Description: “An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems” about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America (Ms. Magazine). In 1773, a young African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley’s book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words would astound many and irritate others, but one thing was clear: This young woman was extraordinary. 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 with her parents in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters, and her untimely death at the age of about thirty-three. 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Age of Phillis books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Age of Phillis

The Age of Phillis

File Size : 56,56 MB
Total View : 2654 Views
DOWNLOAD

“An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems” about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America (Ms. M

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 761 Views
DOWNLOAD

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 b

Novel Therapies for CNS Injuries

Novel Therapies for CNS Injuries

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 5277 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book provides reviews of the epidemiology, evaluation, and patient management of central nervous system (CNS) injuries. Internationally recognized clinicia