Phillian poetry as a place of memory around mourning
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Mourning, Memory, Phillis Wheatley, North American poetryAbstract
This article presents a study on the poems On the Death of the Reverend Dr. Sewell and On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age, by the poet Phillis Wheatley, problematizing memory and mourning in them. Phillis was the first African-American to publish a book of poems – Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral, published in 1773. Regarding to memory, we base our discussions on the texts of Halbwachs (2006), Ricoeur (2007), and Nora (2012). Ricoeur understands memory as a distinction between individual and collective memory, in turn, articulated by an external perspective. Next, we discuss mourning and memory based on the texts of Freud (2010). For Freud, mourning and melancholy are forms of expression about loss and pain. In addition, we present a brief profile of Phillis in light of her importance to North American literature. We conclude that Phillis Wheatley uses memory to employ the narrative of death, and, the theme of mourning in her poems emerges as an element of evocation of memories.
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