TY - BOOK AU - Shields,John C. TI - Phillis Wheatley's poetics of liberation: backgrounds and contexts SN - 9781572334991 (acidfree paper) AV - PS866.W5 Z697 2008 U1 - 811/.1 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Knoxville PB - University of Tennessee Press KW - Wheatley, Phillis, KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - African influences N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-229) and index; A poetics of liberation -- Wheatley considered intellectually impoverished: the first 190 years -- Wheatley intellectually gifted-maybe: the last 25 years -- African origins -- Post-African religious development -- Intellectual development -- The dignity of Wheatley's poems restored UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007037805.html ER -