The first English-speaking black writer to gain a European readership?
16th October 2015
As it’s Black History Month, I thought I’d share this, the rare first edition in German of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), a foundation text of black literature which, in its original English version, is still in print: ‘a work of enduring literary and historical value’ (Penguin Classics). ‘Equiano’s autobiography remains […]
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