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Essay Instructions: Only Writers who can write quality dissertations, should take this assignment!

Dissertation, Turabian w/footnotes
No biographical information about the authors!

The thesis has to be made up of 4 parts:

1)it should speak about slave narrative and Black Autobiography in general, from Frederick Douglass till Ralph Ellison;

2)it should speak of Richard Wright''s Black Boy: themes(search of identity, etc), structure, language; you have to speak of what has in common and what differs from the tradition of black autobiography and slave narratives ;

3)it should speak of James Weldon Johnson''s Autobiography of an ex-colored man :themes(search of identity, etc),structure, language; you have to speak of what has in common and what differs from the tradition of black autobiography and slave narratives;

4)a comparison between R. Wright''s Black Boy and J. W: Johnson''s Autobiography of an ex-colored man.

Books that you MUST take into consideration:

-R.B.Stepto, "FROM BEHIND THE VEIL" ,1979

-Stephen Butterfield, "BLACK AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN AMERICA",1974

-Davis Charles T., Gates Henry Louis Jr,"THE SLAVE''S NARRATIVE".

-Gates Henry Louis,"THE SIGNIFYING MONKEY"

-Mackethan Lucinda H.,"VERSION and INVERSION of the SLAVE NARRATOR''s QUEST for VOICE." CLA Journal 32(2):123-147,1988 DEC.
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Essay Instructions: This essay is for an Af-Am Lit class. The text used is "The Classic Slave Narratives." Edited by Henry Louis Gates ,Jr, ( A Signet Classic)
Within the text is "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African"
The explicit directions are as follows:
"In roughly 1250 words (5 pages) shape a critical argument that pays careful attention to the writer's use of language. Take care to quote from the text and to use those quotes as evidence for your interpertations."
The question(s) are as follows:
"In what way is Equiano writing a conversion narrative? What does that conversion entail."?
These questions are meant only as guidelines (although I usually answer them anyway)and not necessarily the whole paper. There are at least 3 generes at work here,slave narrative, spiritual autobio(conversion),as well as industry (the self made man)which you may want to include in passing. Try and find an interesting point of view as my Prof is a learned man at an Ivy League school. Thank you!

Essay Instructions: Please reference the collection of "Classic Slave Narratives" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. which includes the narrative of the life of Olaudah Equino. I need this no latter than 8 am 02-04-04, if this is not possible I do not want to purchase paper.

Essay Instructions: Go to Bruce Fort's American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology of the narratives of former slaves compiled from interviews conducted under the guidance of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Find the Annotated Index of Narratives and review the profiles of some of the freed people who took part in the project. Select several of the narratives for closer analysis. Black southerners sought respect, land, and the rights of citizenship. What did freedom mean? Did the nation miss an historic opportunity to create a multiracial society? The events of Reconstruction are said to have cast a long shadow over race relations for future generations. Do you agree? Your task is to read evidence in selected slave narratives and to think critically of the black experience and American's response to the era. As you read, ask, "How 'accurate' are the slave narratives? What is their 'value'?"