The story was the self. But the story he had to tell filled an important gap in the grand narrative of the African American experience. Born Oluale Kossola in the s, Lewis was believed to be the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Trained as an anthropologist, Hurston was interested in the universal, the profound, and the ordinary. I was sent to ask.
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Why This Artist Let Her Nude Body Tell The Story of Slave Trading in New York City
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His research focus is on African and Black Diaspora literature as well as postcolonial studies. Email: yomoduwobi gmail. This paper examines how Manu Herbstein employs his fictionalised neo-slave narrative entitled Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade to address the issue of sexual violence against women and to foreground the trans-Atlantic rape identities of victims and victimisers in relation to race, gender, class and religion.