Contents
Foreword - Vincent Carretta
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Eric D. Lamore
Part 1. Foundational Discussions on Teaching 'The Interesting Narrative'
History, Oratory, and God in Equiano’s 'Interesting Narrative' - Adam Potkay
Equiano Lite - Srinivas Aravamudan
Domesticating Equiano’s 'Interesting Narrative' - Roxann Wheeler
Part 2. Special Topics in Teaching 'The Interesting Narrative'
Olaudah Equiano, Autobiography, and Ideas of Culture - Sarah Brophy
Flat Equiano: A Transatlantic Approach to Teaching 'The Interesting Narrative' - Jessica L. Hollis
Finding a Home for Equiano - Tess Chakkalakal
Loving the Unstable Text and Times of Equiano’s 'Narrative' : Using Carretta’s Biography in the Classroom - Emily M. N. Kugler
Part 3. Pedagogy, African American Studies, and 'The Interesting Narrative'
When Young Minds Read Equiano’s 'Narrative' - Angelo Costanzo
“Profitable Reading”: Literacy, Christianity, and Constitutionalism in Olaudah Equiano’s 'Interesting Narrative' - John Saillant
Equiano and One Canon of Early African American Literature - Phillip M. Richards
Metaphysics of Presence in Olaudah Equiano’s 'Narrative' - Cedrick May
Part 4. Pedagogy, American Studies, and 'The Interesting Narrative'
“Neither a Saint, a Hero, Nor a Tyrant”: Teaching Equiano Comparatively - Keri Holt
Equiano’s 'Interesting Narrative' and the Difficulties of Teaching the Early American Literature Survey Course - Michael Pringle
The Difference Teaching Equiano Makes: Notes on Teaching 'The Interesting Narrative' in the Undergraduate American Literature Survey - Lisa M. Logan
Captives, Slaves, and Writers: Teaching 'The Narrative' of Olaudah Equiano as Captivity Narrative - Abby Chandler
Transatlantic Transformations: Olaudah Equiano’s 'Narrative' and Caryl Phillips’s 'Cambridge' - Eric D. Lamore
Contributors
Index