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The American in Algiers 1797 as an Abolitionist Poem : the Appropriation of White Slavery in Algiers as an Appeal against Black Slavery in the United States

المصدر: مجلة الخطاب
الناشر: جامعة مولود معمري تيزي وزو - كلية الآداب واللغات - مخبر تحليل الخطاب
المؤلف الرئيسي: Riche, Bouteldja (Author)
مؤلفين آخرين: Mammeri, Mouloud Sibre Mouloud (Co-Author)
المجلد/العدد: ع11
محكمة: نعم
الدولة: الجزائر
التاريخ الميلادي: 2012
الشهر: يونيو
الصفحات: 23 - 44
ISSN: 1112-7082
رقم MD: 651242
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
قواعد المعلومات: AraBase
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المستخلص: This paper has studied the issue that The American in Algiers (1797) is an abolitionist poem. As the poem is anonymously published by an American writer, it is read from a new historicist and cultural materialist perspective. Therefore, it is considered in the light of other American writings, literary or not, that were produced in the 1790s and dealt with the captives of Algiers crisis or slavery in the United States along with the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. The point is that the poem appropriates the crisis of the so-called captivity and enslavement of American citizens in Algiers to appeal against black slavery in the United States. This is achieved through drawing analogies between the political and religious factors behind the slavery practice both in Algiers and the United States as well as revealing the inhumanity of the practice. Doing so allows the poet raise abolitionist concern on the part of the Americans, who are outraged by the enslavement of their citizens in Algiers but carry on exploiting black slaves in their own soil.

ISSN: 1112-7082