To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865University of Illinois Press, 17 oct. 2022 - 368 pages To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black Americans. Andrews includes but also goes beyond slave narratives to analyze spiritual biographies, criminal confessions, captivity stories, travel accounts, interviews, and memoirs. As he shows, Black writers continuously faced the fact that northern whites often refused to accept their stories and memories as sincere, and especially distrusted portraits of southern whites as inhuman. Black writers had to silence parts of their stories or rely on subversive methods to make facts tellable while contending with the sensibilities of the white editors, publishers, and readers they relied upon and hoped to reach. |
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... American pride and selfreliance at its best.4 Knowing that they could not assume an equal relationship with the average white American reader, blacks set about writing life stories that would somehow prove that they qualified as the ...
... American pride and selfreliance at its best.4 Knowing that they could not assume an equal relationship with the average white American reader, blacks set about writing life stories that would somehow prove that they qualified as the ...
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... American autobiography , the genre had become the scene of a com- plex discursive encounter presided over by a self - determining narrator who makes free with text and reader in the name of truth to self , a stan- dard that left both ...
... American autobiography , the genre had become the scene of a com- plex discursive encounter presided over by a self - determining narrator who makes free with text and reader in the name of truth to self , a stan- dard that left both ...
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... American autobiographer . The reception of his narrative as truth de- pended on the degree to which his artfulness could hide his art . As a class , no group of American autobiographers has been received with more skepticism and ...
... American autobiographer . The reception of his narrative as truth de- pended on the degree to which his artfulness could hide his art . As a class , no group of American autobiographers has been received with more skepticism and ...
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... American autobiogra- phies of the antebellum era . For the Afro - American and his white sponsors , autobiography an- swered a felt need for a rhetorical mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other ...
... American autobiogra- phies of the antebellum era . For the Afro - American and his white sponsors , autobiography an- swered a felt need for a rhetorical mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other ...
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... American aesthetic standards of the time made a black narrative that exposed the institutional facts of slavery preferable to one that expressed the subjec- tive views of an individual slave . As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all ...
... American aesthetic standards of the time made a black narrative that exposed the institutional facts of slavery preferable to one that expressed the subjec- tive views of an individual slave . As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all ...
Table des matières
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Voices of the First Fifty Years 17601810 | 32 |
Experiments in Two Modes 181040 | 61 |
The Performance of Slave Narrative in the 1840s | 97 |
The Uses of Marginality 185065 | 167 |
Culmination of a Century The Autobiographies of J D Green Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs | 205 |
Free at Last From Discourse to Dialogue in the Novelized Autobiography | 265 |
Notes | 293 |
Annotated Bibliography of AfroAmerican Autobiography 17601865 | 333 |
Annotated Bibliography of AfroAmerican Biography 17601865 | 343 |
Index | 349 |
Note on the Author | |
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