Disruption of Academic Lens via Marginalized Voices

This paper reflects a unique goal of the UCI Undergraduate English program: to challenge students to consider how marginalized voices conform and depart from the dominant literary movements of the time.

The goal of my paper was to use a contemporary academic lens of Romanticism to read Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince: a West Indian Slave. This challenge would uncover the ways that the contemporaneous slave narrative both conforms and departs from Romanticism, in particular, in the ways that non-dominant minorities are unable to fulfill the expression and interpretation of self which Romantic writers relied upon.

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