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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... criticism when I approached the question of interpreting Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . James Olney ... critic wants and needs . Their ad- vice has been most helpful . Nellie McKay's support has been sustaining and ...
... criticism when I approached the question of interpreting Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . James Olney ... critic wants and needs . Their ad- vice has been most helpful . Nellie McKay's support has been sustaining and ...
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... criticism . It is often a fundamental part of the act of literary and self - creation , of " revisionary replacements " of scriptural ideas of the self with " a word one's own that is also one's act and one's veritable presence . " 23 ...
... criticism . It is often a fundamental part of the act of literary and self - creation , of " revisionary replacements " of scriptural ideas of the self with " a word one's own that is also one's act and one's veritable presence . " 23 ...
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... criticism as old as the Hebrew prophets and Greek and Latin satirists : the idea of " the World Upsidedown . " 25 In slavery , the black autobiographer preached , in the words of Douglass , " the order of civilization is reversed ...
... criticism as old as the Hebrew prophets and Greek and Latin satirists : the idea of " the World Upsidedown . " 25 In slavery , the black autobiographer preached , in the words of Douglass , " the order of civilization is reversed ...
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... critics feel when trying to characterize autobiography in a systematic way . " Autobiography is certainly not a genre with rigorous rules , " he points out . " It only requires that certain possible conditions be realized , conditions ...
... critics feel when trying to characterize autobiography in a systematic way . " Autobiography is certainly not a genre with rigorous rules , " he points out . " It only requires that certain possible conditions be realized , conditions ...
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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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