Twelve Years a Slave

ISBN-13: 9780393264241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str.

Solomon Northup; Jr. Henry Louis Gates

Opis

- The illustrations printed in the original book - Contemporary sources (1853--62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup's kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon - A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir's major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others - The 2013 film adaptation12 Years a Slave--fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen. - A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.