SOURCE: “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and the Ideology of Slavery,” in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, Vol. 40, No. 3, 1994, pp. 219-50.
In the following essay, Worley explores Pym as a novel “singularly concerned with race” in the context of Poe's views on slavery, and contends that the narrative undermines its own pro-slavery subtext.
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