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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... according as his safety or welfare seems to require it. Other things being equal, the freer a people, the more truthful; and only the perfectly free and fearless are perfectly truthful.”7 In this observation Howe tried to suggest that ...
... according as his safety or welfare seems to require it. Other things being equal, the freer a people, the more truthful; and only the perfectly free and fearless are perfectly truthful.”7 In this observation Howe tried to suggest that ...
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... according to traditional cultural models , greater and greater attention came to rest on those aspects of the self outside the margins of the normal , the acceptable , and the definable , as conceived by the predominant culture ...
... according to traditional cultural models , greater and greater attention came to rest on those aspects of the self outside the margins of the normal , the acceptable , and the definable , as conceived by the predominant culture ...
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... according to the per- sonal standards of some narrative " other . " This other was a good deal less solicitous of the white reader's empathy and trust than earlier black auto- biographical personae had been . Instead of appealing to the ...
... according to the per- sonal standards of some narrative " other . " This other was a good deal less solicitous of the white reader's empathy and trust than earlier black auto- biographical personae had been . Instead of appealing to the ...
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... according to " whether it leads us to nature , or to the person of the writer . The great always introduce us to facts ; small men introduce us always to them- selves . " Thus the most trustworthy of all slave narrators would be the one ...
... according to " whether it leads us to nature , or to the person of the writer . The great always introduce us to facts ; small men introduce us always to them- selves . " Thus the most trustworthy of all slave narrators would be the one ...
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... a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature re- spond to symbols , " then all of the arts of language , including " purely po- etic structures " according to Burke , qualify as potentially 22 To Tell a Free Story.
... a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature re- spond to symbols , " then all of the arts of language , including " purely po- etic structures " according to Burke , qualify as potentially 22 To Tell a Free Story.
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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