![]() ![]() He invokes other voices to render his personal experiences and observations universal. A close look at Equiano’s use of quotations and allusions, particularly in Chapter 5 of his autobiography, demonstrates that he relies on his readers’ familiarity with the relevant intertextual contexts in effect to coauthor or complete his arguments. Few have discussed Equiano as a literary artist at the verbal level. Written by Himself (London, 1789), they have said very little about how Equiano employs intertextual allusions in his argument against the slave trade. Although in recent years historians and literary critics have often cited or commented on Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. ![]()
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