Clotel, or, The president's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States
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Clotel, or, The president's daughter : a narrative of slave life in the United States
（Bedford cultural editions）
Bedford/St. Martin's, c2011
2nd ed. / edited by Robert S. Levine
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 415-424
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Clotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of Clotel is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when he wrote his novel. The streamlined second edition includes an updated introduction that incorporates the explosion of scholarship on the novel over the past decade, when proof of the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings emerged. In addition to their attention to this relationship, the cultural documents focus more directly on the texts about slavery and race that Brown drew on, and on Brown's own controversial approach to writing and revising Clotel.
Table of Contents
- About the Series.- About This Volume.- List of Illustrations.- PART I: CLOTEL
- OR, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER: THE COMPLETE TEXT.- Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background.- Chronology of Brown's Life and Times.- A Note on the Text and Annotations.- Clotel
- or, The President's Daughter [1853 Edition].- PART II: CLOTEL
- OR, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER: CULTURAL CONTEXTS.- Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.- 'All These Combined Have Made Up My Story': Source Texts about Slavery and Race.- Writing and Revising Clotel.- Selected Reviews of Clotel.- Selected Bibliography.
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