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The age of Phillis
- Title
- The age of Phillis / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
- Author
- Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-
- Publication
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 21-88 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 213 pages; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- "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." --
- Series Statement
- Wesleyan poetry
- Uniform Title
- Wesleyan poetry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards (note)
- National Book Award Longlist.
- 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 -- Looking for Miss Phillis.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-88
- ISBN
- 9780819579492
- 0819579491
- LCCN
- 2019040204
- OCLC
- 1113889252
- Author
- Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967- author.
- Title
- The age of Phillis / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
- Publisher
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Wesleyan poetryWesleyan poetry.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Awards
- National Book Award Longlist.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.AUTH: U. OKLAHOMA. POETIC REIMAGINING OF THE LIFE & TIMES OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-88