To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865To 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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Portions of Chapter 2 first appeared in “The First Fifty Years of the Slave Narrative, 1760–1810,” in John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner, eds., The Art of Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24.
Portions of Chapter 2 first appeared in “The First Fifty Years of the Slave Narrative, 1760–1810,” in John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner, eds., The Art of Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24.
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Consider John Henry Newman's relationship to his British audience prior to the creation of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864). Having left the Anglican clergy to become a Roman Catholic priest, Newman found himself under attack in 1864 ...
Consider John Henry Newman's relationship to his British audience prior to the creation of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864). Having left the Anglican clergy to become a Roman Catholic priest, Newman found himself under attack in 1864 ...
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... the black preacher John Marrant lamented in his Journal the failure of his “stammering tongue” and of language itself to signify his experience of divine love: “O where shall we find language sufficient to celebrate his praises?
... the black preacher John Marrant lamented in his Journal the failure of his “stammering tongue” and of language itself to signify his experience of divine love: “O where shall we find language sufficient to celebrate his praises?
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In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery could be fully understood apart from the perspective of its victims. This conviction led to the publication of a number of valuable studies ...
In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery could be fully understood apart from the perspective of its victims. This conviction led to the publication of a number of valuable studies ...
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If, as John Searle has argued, “every institutional fact is underlain by a [system of] rule[s] of the form X counts as Fin context C,'” then the crucial role of the editor in early black autobiography can be distinguished more clearly.
If, as John Searle has argued, “every institutional fact is underlain by a [system of] rule[s] of the form X counts as Fin context C,'” then the crucial role of the editor in early black autobiography can be distinguished more clearly.
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Avis d'utilisateur - Not Available - Book VerdictAndrews describes and analyzes many autobiographies here, but his primary focus is on "slave narratives'' by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (a.k.a. Linda Brent), and J. D. Green. He convincingly ... Consulter l'avis complet
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| Titre | To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 |
| Auteur | William L. Andrews |
| Éditeur | University of Illinois Press, 2022 |
| ISBN | 0252054636, 9780252054631 |
| Longueur | 368 pages |
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