Victory by Simile
Andrea Brady: Phillis Wheatley’s Evolution, 4 January 2024
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence
by David Waldstreicher.
Farrar, Straus, 480 pp., £24, March 2023,978 0 8090 9824 8 Show More
by David Waldstreicher.
Farrar, Straus, 480 pp., £24, March 2023,
“... of sin. Is this ‘artful whiteface mockery of pious racists’? In his new biography of Wheatley, David Waldstreicher encourages us to think so, and to read the lines in a ‘mocking or satirical instead of a beseeching voice’, so that we can hear Wheatley ‘become the organic intellectual of the enslaved’.The poem shows Wheatley working within ... ”
