Discuss the concept of cultural appropriation in poems such as Blake’s “The Little Black Boy”; William Cowper’s “The
Negro’s Complaint” and Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith’s “The Sorrows of Yamba”
You are not permitted to do papers that are strictly biographical or historical. Remember, this is a literature
course, and for that reason, you are to write some kind of interpretation of a piece of literature as literature. You
may certainly draw upon biographical or historical detail to support your discussion, but biography and history
should probably not at this point in your academic career be the main focus of your papers.
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