Phillis Wheatley: The African-American Literary Leader

Phyllis Whitley shows the beginning of the African American literary tradition. It was the first African American who became a publishing writer, but since it reflects a certain era in American history, its position as a slave, and the adolescent period of Christian religion, her originality I have proved. Women (Harris) Each of these is essential to her fresh African-American perspective. Just as white is not protected, Whitley is skillfully linking the roots of slavery and racial discrimination.

John Whitley's black servant Felipe Whitley, poet of Philis Wheatley Peters (1753 - 1784) from 1773 in Boston, John New England, said, "Various themes, religion, moral poetry Since then, the first book published by African-American writer Phyllis Wheatley remains one of the most controversial in African-American literature, but one of the most famous people Whitley's In life life scientists, abolitionists and even the future US president Thomas Jefferson are discussing her achievement.In the centuries later scholars said that her poem influences African-Americans' liberty struggle It is related to the wider political and ethnic issues that I have raised, but the centuries of African-American writers are also concerned with Whitley's African It does not contribute to the creation and development of literary tradition of American-American.

As the first African American who wrote an imaginative text, Whitley is the founder of the African American literary tradition and the founder of the African-American women's tradition. Whitley combines the influence of religion and neoclassicalism into poetry. She detailed the subject of liberty in many works. For example, Phillys Wheatley has announced a political commentary to support the freedom from the United Kingdom of the United States. Her numerous elegance shows a conscious poem to escape slavery. She celebrates death and resurrection and freedom after death. Whitley used poetry to escape from the imaginative world, but he did not miss the de facto dilemma that revealed her people.

Philis Wheatley (1753 - 1784), a poet, originally published a book on a problem but has long been destroyed by literary critics who refused to believe that black women are so dense. Not to mention the impact of a romantic era such as giants such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, intellectual work. In fact, Thomas Jefferson once declared that "the work published under her name is lower than the dignity of criticism." But in recent decades, the work of Whitley is under the new scrutiny for the literature of the 18th century and for African Americans. The influence of literature was reconfirmed. In these unprecedented papers, 14 prominent Whitley scholars considered her work from multiple perspectives and confirmed that she was the number one in the American writers. The first part shows that the most important measure of Whitley 's multi - layer text can be the ingenious handling of her classic material.