Slaves in Algiers
Author | : Mrs. Rowson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mrs. Rowson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susanna Rowson |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2023-04-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1770489053 |
As Americans began defining who was to be counted a citizen in their newly-established republic, Susanna Rowson’s comic opera Slaves in Algiers (1794) makes an earnest case that women be accorded the rights guaranteed to men, playfully turning sexual hierarchies on their head: “Women were born for universal sway; / Men to adore, be silent, and obey.” A fast-paced plot, engaging characterization, and rollicking songs ensured that Slaves in Algiers garnered success when it was first performed at the New Theater in Philadelphia. But Rowson’s play also engages in perpetuating racial stereotypes: set in Algiers at a time when Barbary pirates were seizing more and more U.S. ships in the Mediterranean Sea, Slaves in Algiers is written for a largely white audience driven by outrage at the enslavement of white people in the Barbary states. The play is critical of many aspects of North African cultures, particularly the practices of piracy and enslavement, while not acknowledging the moral and ethical taint of America’s own enslavement of African Americans. In recent years, critics have given increased attention to Slaves in Algiers, particularly to its interwoven feminist, nationalist, and imperialist themes, as well as to its treatment of Muslim and Jewish characters. This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts.
Author | : Amine Zidouh |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3656174172 |
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject World History - General and Comparison, grade: 14/20, University Hassan II. Casablanca, language: English, abstract: Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom (1794) is a play written by Susanna Haswell Rowson. The setting takes place in “Barbary” – the Mediterranean coast of North Africa – and more precisely in Algiers. The play centers on the lives of several American ‘slaves’ who plot their escape in an unflappable look for freedom. The relevance of studying a piece of literature - and more precisely, a play - stems from the idea that people in the time, used to watch plays, more than they would read books because plays were regarded as being more ‘entertaining’. In addition to that, although plays are a fictitious form of literature, they were always related to real events; hence the majority of people consider them as being true or as at least as referring to some real events. Another point would be that literature in that time was -often- judged on the basis of the moral values it contained. In that regard, Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom is a rich document to be scrutinized with as much seriousness as when dealing with other sources that are considered as more ‘factual’. Therefore the need to study such a piece emanates from its very crucial role in shaping social reality , via its representation of ‘Barbary’ and its reflections over the nature of freedom, slavery and race.
Author | : Amine Zidouh |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3656214859 |
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 14/20, University Hassan II. Casablanca, course: Cultural History of Moroccan American Relations, language: English, abstract: This essay tries to shed light on the hidden relationship between literature and ideology. It focuses more specifically on captivity narratives, which were once one of the most important literary writings vis-a-vis their impact on shaping people's opinion on the one hand but also on influencing the decision-makings in the political arena on the other hand. The piece of 'literature' that this essays examines is called: Slaves in Algiers; Or, A Struggle for Freedom by Susanna Rowson.
Author | : C. Sears |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137295031 |
Whether by falling prey to Algerian corsairs or crashing onto the desert shores of Western Sahara, a handful of Americans in the first years of the Republic found themselves enslaved in a system that differed so markedly from nineteenth century U.S. slavery that some contemporaries and modern scholars hesitate to categorize their experiences as 'slavery.' Sears uses a comparative approach, placing African enslavement of Americans and Europeans in the context of Mediterranean and Ottoman slaveries, while individually investigating the system of slavery in Algiers and Western Sahara. This work illuminates the commonalities and peculiarities of these slaveries, while contributing to a growing body of literature that showcases the flexibility of slavery as an institution.
Author | : Susanna Haswell Rowson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780781288439 |
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Author | : Wolfgang Bürkle |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2007-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3638762637 |
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When Susanna Haswell Rowson wrote her play "Slaves in Algiers" in 1794, many people in America and Europe were fascinated by stories about the Orient. The exotic tales from faraway countries with strange animals, hot deserts, magnificent palaces, and captured sailors attracted many readers. It did not matter if the described events were true or not, as long as they provided an exciting story with Oriental scenery. Writers then created their own picture of the Orient, often with exaggerating fantasy. The interesting aspect of Rowson's play is therefore her view of the Oriental people and their culture in contrast to the American people and their culture. She creates a specific picture of the Arabic culture and its people to show the advantages of the American values. It is also notable how she describes the difference of the sexes and their struggle for liberty in a foreign land. Rowson describes in "Slaves in Algiers", with the help of the characters, her opinions on liberty, emancipation, and white slavery in the Orient. Rowson's description of the Orient and the Arabic culture in the drama is her device to show the superiority of American values and the importance of liberty in every society. The historical context and the definition of Orientalism serve as a basis to understand her opinions.
Author | : Kathleen Woolrich |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2014-07-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0578138581 |
This is the second poetry anthology published by Kathleen Woolrich. These poems were inspired by her love for North Africa and North Africans she met along the way. Slaves of Algiers refers to the Irish who were enslaved in the Casbah after the Sack of Baltimore in the 1600's who chose not to return to Ireland. In many ways, Kathleen herself considers herself captive by a country which is not her own. Kathleen loves North Africa as if it was her own. Algerian Suns and Slaves of Algiers are companions and sequential and follow her life from 2005 to 2014.
Author | : Mrs. Rowson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maria Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1811 |
Genre | : Africa, North |
ISBN | : |