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Soul Matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Joanna Brooks
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Is there a new “religious turn” in early american studies? or do declensions and revivals in scholarly attention to Religious matters suggest something about how religion and spirituality are lived? Witness an episode from the life of Olaudah Equiano, as recorded in his Interesting Narrative (1789), one of the new classics of early American literary study. It is October 1773, and the twenty-eight-year-old Equiano finds himself once again home in London. London, of course, is home in name only. Where is home for Equiano, really? Is it Igbo West Africa, the Carolinas, Philadelphia, London, or the black Atlantic itself? Did Equiano himself even know?

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 128 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 947 - 952
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Copyright © 2013 by The Modern Language Association of America

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