(Dis) Forming the American Canon : African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular
ISBN: 9780816684274
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Minnesota Press
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Subjects: Literature;

Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourseOCOs claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to OC reasonOCO before his original introduction to Western cultureOCoa literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe."


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