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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

KATHERINE CLAY BASSARD (ESSAY DATE 1999)

SOURCE: Bassard, Katherine Clay. "Diaspora Subjectivity and Transatlantic Crossings: Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Recovery." In Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing, pp. 28-57. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

In the following excerpt, Bassard focuses on Wheatley's "On Being Brought From Africa to America" as an instance of Wheatley's African American poetics.

Diaspora Subjectivity

In Between Slavery and Freedom, Bill E. Lawson writes of the "functional lexical gap" evidenced by the lack of an appropriate collective nomenclature for descendants of Africans enslaved in the Americas. Noting that "the language we use to frame a group's political and social...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Phillis Wheatley (Letter Date 1773)
   2. Phillis Wheatley (Letter Date 1774)
4. General Commentary
   1. M. A. Richmond (Essay Date 1974)
   2. Betsy Erkkila (Essay Date Fall 1987)
   3. Walt Nott (Essay Date Fall 1993)
5. Title Commentary
   1. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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