CAST 3506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mary Prince, Slave Narrative, Susanna Moodie
11 Apr 2016
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Slave narratives of the time were typically written by males. An intertextual reading, at its most basic level acknowledges the fact that no text is an island. All texts are intertexts in so far as they refer to recycle and draw from other pre-existing texts . As a result, meaning may be found when a text is read in relation to other texts: similar genres, other literary forms, social discourses, histories, and literary themes. By separating themes within novels you use your own cultural lens on and therefore appropriate things into your own understanding of the world. Literature is not something that can be read outside of its historical and cultural contexts. An intertextual reading of mary prince: the text itself (obviously, its production history, genre of the slave narrative, mary prince"s life/culture, susanna strickland"s life/culture. 1831: strickland transcribes prince"s narrative, edited and published as a political pamphlet by thomas pringle.
