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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... called free states of the antebellum United States , the definition of freedom for black people remained open . Autobiography became a very public way of declaring oneself free , of redefining freedom and then assigning it to oneself in ...
... called free states of the antebellum United States , the definition of freedom for black people remained open . Autobiography became a very public way of declaring oneself free , of redefining freedom and then assigning it to oneself in ...
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... called me a liar . " Yet " how am I now to be trusted ? " Newman wondered , when his greatest foe was not the arguments of Kingsley but " the bias of the court , " the court of British public opinion . Newman's analysis of his position ...
... called me a liar . " Yet " how am I now to be trusted ? " Newman wondered , when his greatest foe was not the arguments of Kingsley but " the bias of the court , " the court of British public opinion . Newman's analysis of his position ...
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... called a running metadiscourse on the assumptions , conditions , and conventions necessary to discourse between black narrator and white reader . Re- gardless of the degree of sophistication , however , the early black auto ...
... called a running metadiscourse on the assumptions , conditions , and conventions necessary to discourse between black narrator and white reader . Re- gardless of the degree of sophistication , however , the early black auto ...
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... called edited narratives of ex- slaves ought to be treated as ghostwritten accounts insofar as literary analysis is concerned , especially when these works were composed by their editors from " a statement of facts " provided by the ...
... called edited narratives of ex- slaves ought to be treated as ghostwritten accounts insofar as literary analysis is concerned , especially when these works were composed by their editors from " a statement of facts " provided by the ...
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... called " the assumption that a substantial soul or self pre- cedes and governs individual experience and may be discerned through that experience " as recorded in an autobiography . " Because the ontology of autobiography is so ...
... called " the assumption that a substantial soul or self pre- cedes and governs individual experience and may be discerned through that experience " as recorded in an autobiography . " Because the ontology of autobiography is so ...
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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