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 principal charge Kingsley had brought against him was plain and direct, Newman stated: “He 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 ...
The principal charge Kingsley had brought against him was plain and direct, Newman stated: “He 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 ...
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At times this kind of reflectiveness and self-consciousness produces what might be called a running metadiscourse on the assumptions, conditions, and conventions necessary to discourse between black narrator and white reader.
At times this kind of reflectiveness and self-consciousness produces what might be called a running metadiscourse on the assumptions, conditions, and conventions necessary to discourse between black narrator and white reader.
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Many so-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 ...
Many so-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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nineteenth century, black autobiography raises serious doubts about what William Spengemann has called “the assumption that a substantial soul or self precedes and governs individual experience and may be discerned through that ...
nineteenth century, black autobiography raises serious doubts about what William Spengemann has called “the assumption that a substantial soul or self precedes and governs individual experience and may be discerned through that ...
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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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