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Cargando... Frederick Douglass (1991)por William S. McFeely
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Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass--orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America--was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanised the antislavery movement and is one of the truly seminal works of African-American literature. In this Lincoln Prize? winning biography, William S. McFeely captures the many sides of Douglass-- his boyhood on the Chesapeake; his self-education; his rebellion and rising expectations; his marriage, affairs, and intense friendships; his bitter defeat and transcendent courage--and re-creates the high drama of a turbulent era. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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One issue. The author, McFeely, gets very Freudian many times. Every chapter or so, someone is gazing at Douglass sexually or homosexually or some incident is imbued with sexual feeling, repressed or subconscious. While that might sometimes be the case, it is mere supposition on McFeely's part. McFeely often puts the whippings of slaves as punishment in sexual terms. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a whipping is just a whipping. Antebellum Southern slavery had a lot of sexual elements (Douglass's account of his bare-breasted auntie being whipped was definitely a case of sexual jealousy, for instance), but it was not a conspiracy of repressed bisexuals wishing they could have sex with their male slaves (Covey's beating of Douglass probably wasn't sexual in the least, however McFeely may suggest it was). (Shouldn't someone named "McFeely" be wary of Freudian interpretations?) ( )