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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-5 sur 73
Page
... Negro would not deny that the ex-slave had been morally “degraded” by slavery; they insisted, nevertheless, that he could be elevated from his “inferior” condition.5 But how could readers of slave narratives be assured that this moral ...
... Negro would not deny that the ex-slave had been morally “degraded” by slavery; they insisted, nevertheless, that he could be elevated from his “inferior” condition.5 But how could readers of slave narratives be assured that this moral ...
Page 3
... Negro would not deny that the ex - slave had been morally " degraded " by slavery ; they insisted , nevertheless , that he could be ele- vated from his " inferior " condition . " But how could readers of slave nar- ratives be assured ...
... Negro would not deny that the ex - slave had been morally " degraded " by slavery ; they insisted , nevertheless , that he could be ele- vated from his " inferior " condition . " But how could readers of slave nar- ratives be assured ...
Page 6
... Negro , risked alienating white sponsors and readers , too . Characteristically , the most significant black autobiogra- phers refused this no - win choice between two alienating alternatives . In- stead of either conforming to the ...
... Negro , risked alienating white sponsors and readers , too . Characteristically , the most significant black autobiogra- phers refused this no - win choice between two alienating alternatives . In- stead of either conforming to the ...
Page 12
... Negro was . In his study of Euro - American autobiographical tradition , Karl Weintraub finds a basic contrast between writers who identify with " great personality ideals in which their culture tends to embody its values and objectives ...
... Negro was . In his study of Euro - American autobiographical tradition , Karl Weintraub finds a basic contrast between writers who identify with " great personality ideals in which their culture tends to embody its values and objectives ...
Page 13
... Negro evolves from models imported from the predominant culture to more individu- alized self - portraits in which idiosyncrasy and irony are displayed for a variety of reasons . It is also possible to see the genre evolving from what ...
... Negro evolves from models imported from the predominant culture to more individu- alized self - portraits in which idiosyncrasy and irony are displayed for a variety of reasons . It is also possible to see the genre evolving from what ...
Table des matières
1 | |
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 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
abolitionist action African Afro-American alien American antislavery appeared authority become Bibb black autobiography Bondage Boston Brown called century chapter Christian claim confession conventional criticism culture discourse discussion Douglass early edition England escape experience expression facts feel Frederick Douglass freedom freeman fugitive slave genre Green hand Henry Henson ideal identity important Incidents individual Jacobs James John kind language letter Liberator liberty literary lives London marginal master means metaphor mind mode moral narrator nature Negro North past play published question reader relationship resistance rhetorical role seems sense significance slave narrative slavery Smith social society South speak speech spiritual status story structure suffering tion tradition true truth turn University Press Ward whipping woman women writing written York young