Chapter 3
I have often taken up a book, and have talked to it, and then put my ears to it, when alone, in hopes it would answer me; and I have been very much concerned when I found it remained silent.Read in Books4Free →
The Talking Book Trope
From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Equiano's account of watching his master read and placing the book to his own ear expecting it to speak, a trope Henry Louis Gates Jr. identified as foundational to the African American literary tradition.
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