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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... brother” to whites, especially to the white reader of slave narratives; and (2) that the black narrator was, despite all prejudice and propaganda, a truth-teller, a reliable transcriber of the experience and character of black folk.
... brother” to whites, especially to the white reader of slave narratives; and (2) that the black narrator was, despite all prejudice and propaganda, a truth-teller, a reliable transcriber of the experience and character of black folk.
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Nor did these narrators always apologize for these breaches or use them as pretexts for grand reversals of character at climactic moments in their lives. Ex-slaves who do not hide or apologize for the lingering evidence of the ...
Nor did these narrators always apologize for these breaches or use them as pretexts for grand reversals of character at climactic moments in their lives. Ex-slaves who do not hide or apologize for the lingering evidence of the ...
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... the early black autobiographer's discursive aims have much to do with the overwhelmingly “oratorical” character of the genre: its didactic intent, its treatment of life as representative or allegorical, its unifying sense of calling ...
... the early black autobiographer's discursive aims have much to do with the overwhelmingly “oratorical” character of the genre: its didactic intent, its treatment of life as representative or allegorical, its unifying sense of calling ...
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When Burke states that successful rhetoricians know how “to display the appropriate 'signs' of character needed to earn the audience's good will,” he points to another rhetorical feature of black autobiography in its first century of ...
When Burke states that successful rhetoricians know how “to display the appropriate 'signs' of character needed to earn the audience's good will,” he points to another rhetorical feature of black autobiography in its first century of ...
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Slave narratives usually required a variety of authenticating devices, such as character references and reports of investigations into the narrator's slave past (almost always written by whites), so that the slave's story might become ...
Slave narratives usually required a variety of authenticating devices, such as character references and reports of investigations into the narrator's slave past (almost always written by whites), so that the slave's story might become ...
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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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