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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This book does not contend, of course, that all early Afro-American autobiography tells its story in an equally free manner, only that free telling was the vital principle that pushed this tradition past its fetters and obstacles toward ...
This book does not contend, of course, that all early Afro-American autobiography tells its story in an equally free manner, only that free telling was the vital principle that pushed this tradition past its fetters and obstacles toward ...
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To study early Afro-American autobiography in this context, rather than in the unrevealing light of nineteenth-century moral and epistemological categories, is one goal of this book. Today every historian and analyst of the ...
To study early Afro-American autobiography in this context, rather than in the unrevealing light of nineteenth-century moral and epistemological categories, is one goal of this book. Today every historian and analyst of the ...
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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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... involved Afro-Americans of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in yet another kind of journey, a search for language through which the unknown within the self and the unspeakable within slavery might be expressed.
... involved Afro-Americans of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in yet another kind of journey, a search for language through which the unknown within the self and the unspeakable within slavery might be expressed.
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... of very early black autobiography.19 The central metaphor of the black spiritual autobiographer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries might be summarized as: “I am as Mr. Christian [in Pilgrim's Progress] was, ...
... of very early black autobiography.19 The central metaphor of the black spiritual autobiographer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries might be summarized as: “I am as Mr. Christian [in Pilgrim's Progress] was, ...
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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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