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Missing Intertexts: Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative and African American Literary History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2005

GILL BALLINGER ,
TIM LUSTIG  and
DALE TOWNSHEND
GILL BALLINGER
Affiliation:
University of the West of England, St Matthias Campus, Bristol, BS16 2JP.
TIM LUSTIG
Affiliation:
Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG.
DALE TOWNSHEND
Affiliation:
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA.
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Abstract

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of American Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , August 2005 , pp. 207 - 237
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The authors wish to thank Celeste-Marie Bernier, Martin Crawford, Stephen Fender, Alan McIntosh, Judie Newman, Tracy Playle and Charles Swann for their generous assistance.