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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... free blacks in the North as well as enslaved blacks in the South were seen as an alien population recognizably “depraved,” “vicious,” and, for the most part, incorrigible. Abolitionist defenders of the Negro would not deny that the ...
... free blacks in the North as well as enslaved blacks in the South were seen as an alien population recognizably “depraved,” “vicious,” and, for the most part, incorrigible. Abolitionist defenders of the Negro would not deny that the ...
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By virtue of his Catholicism he was regarded as “a member of a most un-English communion,” an alien and a subversive “whose great aim is considered to be the extinction of Protestantism and the Protestant Church.
By virtue of his Catholicism he was regarded as “a member of a most un-English communion,” an alien and a subversive “whose great aim is considered to be the extinction of Protestantism and the Protestant Church.
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The successful speaker or writer “breaks through the alien conceptual horizon of the listener, constructs his own utterance on alien territory, against his, the listener's, apperceptive background.” For Bakhtin, discourse always takes ...
The successful speaker or writer “breaks through the alien conceptual horizon of the listener, constructs his own utterance on alien territory, against his, the listener's, apperceptive background.” For Bakhtin, discourse always takes ...
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If the audience views itself or its interests as alien from the speaker or his interests, rhetoric becomes the means by which the latter attempts to identify with the former. A speaker may seek to affirm his identity with his audience ...
If the audience views itself or its interests as alien from the speaker or his interests, rhetoric becomes the means by which the latter attempts to identify with the former. A speaker may seek to affirm his identity with his audience ...
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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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| 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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