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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Instead of defining the self 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 ...
Instead of defining the self 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 ...
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... of runaways in Canada observed: “The negro, like other men, naturally desires to live in the light of truth; but he hides in the shadow of falsehood, more or less deeply, according as his safety or welfare seems to require it.
... of runaways in Canada observed: “The negro, like other men, naturally desires to live in the light of truth; but he hides in the shadow of falsehood, more or less deeply, according as his safety or welfare seems to require it.
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As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all first-person writing in 1840, such literature could be judged according to “whether it leads us to nature, or to the person of the writer. The great always introduce us to facts; ...
As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all first-person writing in 1840, such literature could be judged according to “whether it leads us to nature, or to the person of the writer. The great always introduce us to facts; ...
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Early black autobiographers seem preoccupied with authenticating their stories and themselves by documenting both according to their fidelity to the facts of human nature and experience that white Americans assumed to be true.
Early black autobiographers seem preoccupied with authenticating their stories and themselves by documenting both according to their fidelity to the facts of human nature and experience that white Americans assumed to be true.
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If, in the largest sense, rhetoric embraces any use of language “as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols,” then all of the arts of language, including “purely poetic structures” according ...
If, in the largest sense, rhetoric embraces any use of language “as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols,” then all of the arts of language, including “purely poetic structures” according ...
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To tell a free story: the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1769-1865
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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