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• Title:The age of Phillis / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
  
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• Author/Creator:Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967- author.
  
• Published/Created:Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3560.E365 A74 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784--Poetry.
  African American women authors--Poetry.
  Enslaved women--Massachusetts--Boston--Poetry.
  Slavery--Massachusetts--History--18th century--Poetry.
  
• Genre/Form:Poetry.
  
• Description:213 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Wesleyan poetry.
  
• Summary:"A collection of original poems speaking to the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave"-- Provided by publisher.
  "In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. 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 in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. 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." -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780819579492 hardcover
  0819579491 hardcover
  9780819579515 electronic book
  0819579513 electronic book
  
• Contents:Prologue : Mother/muse
  Book : Before
  Book : Passage
  Book : After
  Book : Enlightenment
  Book : Awakening
  Muses : Convening
  Book : Voyage
  Book : Love
  Catalog : Revolution
  Book : Liberty
  Epilogue : Daughter/muse
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