Background
Costanzo, Angelo was born on March 23, 1934 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Nicholas and Pasqualina (Sciandra) Costanzo.
( This book skillfully examines the many literary devices...)
This book skillfully examines the many literary devices utilized by the first black writers as they related their slave experiences and fashioned for their own use such literary techniques as the jeremiad sermonic form, the trustworthy omniscient narrator, the picaresque character, the Biblical typological hero, the strong speaking voice, and the quest for physical and spiritual freedoms. The primary object of study is Olaudah Equiano's brilliant autobiography, which served as a prototype for later slave narratives, and thus provided a background for the development of a literary pattern followed by succeeding generations of American black writers. The autobiographical form as used by the eighteenth-century black writers is explored as a reflection of black perceptions of Western culture, and their attempt to enter the literary world.
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Costanzo, Angelo was born on March 23, 1934 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Nicholas and Pasqualina (Sciandra) Costanzo.
Bachelor of Arts in English, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1957. Master of Arts, Lehigh University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1976.
Instructor English College Misericordia, Dallas, 1958-1959. Teacher English Springfield (Pennsylvania) Senior High School, 1959-1960. Assistant professor English Pennsylvania State University Center, Wilkes-Barre, 1960-1966.
Professor English Shippensburg (Pennsylvania) University, since 1966.
( This book skillfully examines the many literary devices...)
Married Dolores Ann Costarella, December 27, 1969.