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Reading Through The Lines
Freedom without Liberation in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative
In The Interesting Narrative , published in 1789, Olaudah Equiano recounts his own life story and his journey to recover the freedom he enjoyed before his enslavement and the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Nevertheless, if he manages to enjoy a constrained freedom, the pressure to assimilate to capitalist, white and patriarchal norms limits it. Indeed, his narrative shows how he is forced to perpetuate the capitalist values that he learns during slavery. Moreover,
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Jan 27
The Significance of Max Havelaar's Failure in His Attempt to Change the Colonial System
Recently, Donald Trump offered military support to Ukraine in exchange for natural resources. But as the novel Max Havelaar by Dutch...
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Jul 11, 2025
The Pen and The Power: The Role of Literature in Normalising Colonial Discourse
This new post explores how 19th century British literature supported colonial power through storytelling, but also how Olaudah Equiano's...
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Apr 20, 2025
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