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"Collective Commerce And The Problem Of Autobiography", Andrew Kopec
"Collective Commerce And The Problem Of Autobiography", Andrew Kopec
Andrew Kopec
This essay partakes in an ongoing conversation about the importance of economics to Olaudah Equiano's slave narrative. I argue that Equiano's text links the singular autobiographical subject to a future collective of Africans schooled in the protocols of international commerce. Equiano's text, I suggest, imagines this collective commerce as a solution to the evils of chattel slavery.
"Irving, Ruin, And Risk", Andrew Kopec
"Irving, Ruin, And Risk", Andrew Kopec
Andrew Kopec
This article offers a new interpretation of Washington Irving and professional authorship, identifying how his experience of financial ruin led him to risk his capital in the literary marketplace.