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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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews ... black American autobiography evolved into a complex “oratorical” mode best exemplified in the narratives of exslaves who had become master rhetoricians ...
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews ... black American autobiography evolved into a complex “oratorical” mode best exemplified in the narratives of exslaves who had become master rhetoricians ...
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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews ... However, the knowledge that they could not predicate their life stories on this racially based trust forced black autobiographers to invent devices and ...
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews ... However, the knowledge that they could not predicate their life stories on this racially based trust forced black autobiographers to invent devices and ...
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11 Reaching “the hearts of men” was the rhetorical aim of practically all black autobiography in the first century of its existence, whether produced by an ex-slave or not. Afro-American literature of the late eighteenth and early ...
11 Reaching “the hearts of men” was the rhetorical aim of practically all black autobiography in the first century of its existence, whether produced by an ex-slave or not. Afro-American literature of the late eighteenth and early ...
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From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause, abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black autobiographies would be ones that forced the ugly facts of “the peculiar institution” to the forefront of a reader's attention ...
From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause, abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black autobiographies would be ones that forced the ugly facts of “the peculiar institution” to the forefront of a reader's attention ...
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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews ... In a number of important black autobiographies of this era, however, a quest more psycholiterary than spiritual can be discerned.
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews ... In a number of important black autobiographies of this era, however, a quest more psycholiterary than spiritual can be discerned.
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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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