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Critical Study of Rowson's "Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom"

Author : Amine Zidouh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656214859
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Critical Study of Rowson's "Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom" written by Amine Zidouh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 14/20, University Hassan II. Casablanca, course: Cultural History of Moroccan American Relations, language: English, abstract: This essay tries to shed light on the hidden relationship between literature and ideology. It focuses more specifically on captivity narratives, which were once one of the most important literary writings vis-a-vis their impact on shaping people's opinion on the one hand but also on influencing the decision-makings in the political arena on the other hand. The piece of 'literature' that this essays examines is called: Slaves in Algiers; Or, A Struggle for Freedom by Susanna Rowson.

Slaves in Algiers

Author : Susanna Rowson
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770489053
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Slaves in Algiers written by Susanna Rowson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Americans began defining who was to be counted a citizen in their newly-established republic, Susanna Rowson’s comic opera Slaves in Algiers (1794) makes an earnest case that women be accorded the rights guaranteed to men, playfully turning sexual hierarchies on their head: “Women were born for universal sway; / Men to adore, be silent, and obey.” A fast-paced plot, engaging characterization, and rollicking songs ensured that Slaves in Algiers garnered success when it was first performed at the New Theater in Philadelphia. But Rowson’s play also engages in perpetuating racial stereotypes: set in Algiers at a time when Barbary pirates were seizing more and more U.S. ships in the Mediterranean Sea, Slaves in Algiers is written for a largely white audience driven by outrage at the enslavement of white people in the Barbary states. The play is critical of many aspects of North African cultures, particularly the practices of piracy and enslavement, while not acknowledging the moral and ethical taint of America’s own enslavement of African Americans. In recent years, critics have given increased attention to Slaves in Algiers, particularly to its interwoven feminist, nationalist, and imperialist themes, as well as to its treatment of Muslim and Jewish characters. This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts.

The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volumes A & B: Beginnings to Reconstruction

Author : Derrick R. Spires
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1039302270
Total Pages : 2556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volumes A & B: Beginnings to Reconstruction written by Derrick R. Spires and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 2556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This product contains both The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume A: Beginnings to 1820 and The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction as a single purchase. Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. Highlights of Volumes A & B: Beginnings to Reconstruction • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, The Coquette, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno • In-depth, Contexts sections on such topics as “Slavery and Resistance,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny,” and “Gender and Sexuality” • Broader and more extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José Maria Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others

Early American Women Critics

Author : Gay Gibson Cima
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139456830
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Early American Women Critics written by Gay Gibson Cima and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter the human rights debates that roiled the American colonies and young republic. Black and white women staked their claims on American citizenship through disparate performances of spirit possession, patriotism, poetic and theatrical production. They protected themselves within various shields which allowed them to speak openly while keeping the individual basis of their identities invisible. Cima shows that between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s–1830s), women from West Africa, Europe, and various corners of the American colonies self-consciously adopted performance strategies that enabled them to critique American culture and establish their own diverse and contradictory claims on the body politic. This book restores the primacy of religious performances - Christian, Yoruban, Bantu and Muslim - to the study of early American cultural and political histories, revealing that religion and race are inseparable.

The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876

Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317017056
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876 written by Brian Yothers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such as Bayard Taylor, John Lloyd Stephens, and Clorinda Minor, demonstrating that American travel writing is marked by a profound intertextuality with the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives about the Holy Land. His concluding chapter on Melville's Clarel shows how Melville's poem provides an incisive critique of the nascent imperial discourse discernible in the American texts with which it is in dialogue.

Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans

Author : Heather Nathans
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130307
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans written by Heather Nathans and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans outside the playhouse

Prodigal Daughters

Author : Marion Rust
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838810
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Prodigal Daughters written by Marion Rust and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity--bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, Charlotte Temple. Yet this best-selling novel has long been perceived as the prime exemplar of female passivity and subjugation in the early Republic. Marion Rust disrupts this view by placing the novel in the context of Rowson's life and other writings. Rust shows how an early form of American sentimentalism mediated the constantly shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is key to understanding both Rowson's work and the lives of early American women. Rust proposes that Rowson found a wide female audience in the young Republic because she articulated meaningful female agency without sacrificing accountability to authority, a particularly useful skill in a nation that idealized womanhood while denying women the most basic rights. Rowson, herself an expert at personal reinvention, invited her readers, theatrical audiences, and students to value carefully crafted female self-presentation as an instrument for the attainment of greater influence. Prodigal Daughters demonstrates some of the ways in which literature and lived experience overlapped, especially for women trying to find room for themselves in an increasingly hostile public arena.

Reuben and Rachel

Author : Susanna Rowson
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770480501
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Reuben and Rachel written by Susanna Rowson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Haswell Rowson, a popular and prolific writer, actress, and educator in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had a truly transatlantic life and career, moving twice from England to America and publishing extensively in both countries. A transatlantic sensibility informs her fictionalized “history” of America, Reuben and Rachel, which traces ten generations of an extended family, beginning with the marriage of Christopher Columbus’s son to a native Peruvian princess, moving through the Tudor succession crises and the colonial settlement of New England, and ending with the title characters, who leave England for America, renounce titles of nobility, and consider their children “true-born Americans.” In Rowson’s representation, the American character derives from fusion and hybridity, the results of intermarriage across racial, religious and national lives.

Slaves in Algiers

Author : Mrs. Rowson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Slaves in Algiers written by Mrs. Rowson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution

Author : Michael Meranze
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442624388
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution written by Michael Meranze and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic world. From the new industrial towns of Great Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded both the rise of democratic nationalism and the subsequent surge of imperial reaction. In Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution, nine essays consider these revolutionary transformations from a variety of literary, visual, and historical perspectives. On topics ranging from painting and poetry to prison reform, the essays challenge and complicate our understandings of revolution and reaction within the transatlantic imagination. Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts, they demonstrate the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between. Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Our South

Author : Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674024281
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Our South written by Jennifer Rae Greeson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.

Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy

Author : Alexandra Ganser
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030436233
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy written by Alexandra Ganser and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.

Transatlantic Insurrections

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200691
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Insurrections written by Paul Giles and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Paul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation of a literary tradition in each national culture was deeply dependent upon negotiation with its transatlantic counterpart. Using the American Revolution as the fulcrum of his argument, Giles describes how the impulse to go beyond conventions of British culture was crucial in the establishment of a distinct identity for American literature. Similarly, he explains the consolidation of British cultural identity partly as a response to the need to suppress the memory and consequences of defeat in the American revolutionary wars. Giles ranges over neglected American writers such as Mather Byles and the Connecticut Wits as well as better-known figures like Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, and Hawthorne. He reads their texts alongside those of British authors such as Pope, Richardson, Equiano, Austen, and Trollope. Taking issue with more established utopian narratives of American literature, Transatlantic Insurrections analyzes how elements of blasphemous, burlesque humor entered into the making of the subject.

Teaching Jewish American Literature

Author : Roberta Rosenberg
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294465
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Jewish American Literature written by Roberta Rosenberg and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored questions of personal identity and national boundaries. These questions can engage students in literature, writing, or religion; at Jewish, Christian, or secular schools; and in or outside the United States. This volume takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. It invites readers to rethink the nature of American multiculturalism, suggests pairings of Jewish American texts with other ethnic American literatures, and examines the workings of whiteness and privilege. Contributors offer varied perspectives on classic texts such as Yekl, Bread Givers, and "Goodbye, Columbus," along with approaches to interdisciplinary topics including humor, graphic novels, and musical theater. The volume concludes with an extensive resources section.

Rogue Performances

Author : P. Reed
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230622712
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Rogue Performances written by P. Reed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.

Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Author : Laurie Lanzen Harris
Publisher : Nineteenth-Century Literature
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism written by Laurie Lanzen Harris and published by Nineteenth-Century Literature. This book was released on 1984-02 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.

Critical Study of Rowson’s Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom.

Author : Amine Zidouh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656174172
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Critical Study of Rowson’s Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom. written by Amine Zidouh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject World History - General and Comparison, grade: 14/20, University Hassan II. Casablanca, language: English, abstract: Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom (1794) is a play written by Susanna Haswell Rowson. The setting takes place in “Barbary” – the Mediterranean coast of North Africa – and more precisely in Algiers. The play centers on the lives of several American ‘slaves’ who plot their escape in an unflappable look for freedom. The relevance of studying a piece of literature - and more precisely, a play - stems from the idea that people in the time, used to watch plays, more than they would read books because plays were regarded as being more ‘entertaining’. In addition to that, although plays are a fictitious form of literature, they were always related to real events; hence the majority of people consider them as being true or as at least as referring to some real events. Another point would be that literature in that time was -often- judged on the basis of the moral values it contained. In that regard, Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom is a rich document to be scrutinized with as much seriousness as when dealing with other sources that are considered as more ‘factual’. Therefore the need to study such a piece emanates from its very crucial role in shaping social reality , via its representation of ‘Barbary’ and its reflections over the nature of freedom, slavery and race.