Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley, juga disebut Phyllis dan Wheatly (s. 1753 – 5 Desember 1784) adalah penyair perempuan Afrika-Amerika pertama yang karyanya diterbitkan. Lahir di Afrika Barat, ia dijual sebagai budak pada usia tujuh atau delapan tahun dan dibawa ke Amerika Utara, Ia dibeli oleh keluarga Wheatley dari Boston, yang mengajarkannya membaca dan menulis dan mendorongnya untuk membuat pusi saat mereka melihat bakatnya.

Phillis Wheatley
Potret Phillis Wheatley, diatributkan oleh beberapa cendekiawan kepada Scipio Moorhead
Lahir	1753 (1753) Afrika Barat (nampaknya Gambia atau Senegal)
Meninggal	5 Desember 1784(1784-12-05) (umur 31) Boston, Massachusetts, AS
Pekerjaan	Penyair
Bahasa	Inggris
Periode	Revolusi Amerika
Karya terkenal	Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Pasangan	John Peters
Anak	Tiga

Bacaan tambahan

Material primer

• Wheatley, Phillis (1988). John C. Shields, ed. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506085-7
• Wheatley, Phillis (2001). Vincent Carretta, ed. Complete Writings. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-042430-X

Biografi

• Borland, (1968). Phillis Wheatley: Young Colonial Poet. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
• Carretta, Vincent (2011). Phillis Wheatley: Biography of A Genius in Bondage Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3338-0
• Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2003). The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers, New York: Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01850-5
• Richmond, M. A. (1988). Phillis Wheatley. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 1-55546-683-4

Material sekunder

• Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz. "Phillis Wheatley," In Literature: The Human Experience, 9th edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006: 1606.
• Bassard, Katherine Clay (1999). Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01639-9
• Engberg, Kathrynn Seidler, The Right to Write: The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 2009. ISBN 978-0-761-84609-3
• Langley, April C. E. (2008). The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-century African American Literature. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-1077-2
• Ogude, S. E. (1983). Genius in Bondage: A Study of the Origins of African Literature in English. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press. ISBN 978-136-048-8
• Reising, Russel J. (1996). Loose Ends: Closure and Crisis in the American Social Text. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1887-3
• Robinson, William Henry (1981). Phillis Wheatley: A Bio-bibliography. Boston: GK Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8318-X
• Robinson, William Henry (1982). Critical Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Boston: GK Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8336-8
• Robinson, William Henry (1984). Phillis Wheatley and Her Writings. New York: Garland. ISBN 0-8240-9346-1
• Shockley, Ann Allen (1988). Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide. Boston: GK Hall. ISBN 0-452-00981-2

Pranala luar

• Karya Phillis Wheatley di Project Gutenberg
• Karya oleh/tentang Phillis Wheatley di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• Karya Phillis Wheatley di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
• Karya oleh Phillis Wheatley di Open Library
• "Phillis Wheatley" National Women's History Museum