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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... 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 Afro-American ...
... 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 Afro-American ...
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... early Afro - American autobiography tells its story in an equally free manner , only that free telling was the vital prin- ciple that pushed this tradition past its fetters and obstacles toward a per- ceptible literary emancipation by ...
... early Afro - American autobiography tells its story in an equally free manner , only that free telling was the vital prin- ciple that pushed this tradition past its fetters and obstacles toward a per- ceptible literary emancipation by ...
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... early on , to the process by which this book has taken shape , To Tell a Free Story would still be bound , I suspect , to many of the deficiencies of conception and execution that he saw in its first draft . Those deficiencies that ...
... early on , to the process by which this book has taken shape , To Tell a Free Story would still be bound , I suspect , to many of the deficiencies of conception and execution that he saw in its first draft . Those deficiencies that ...
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... 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 Afro ...
... 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 Afro ...
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... early nineteenth centuries is domi- nated by treatises , pamphlets , addresses , and appeals , all of which employ expostulatory means to confront the problem of the black situation in white America . Yet only black autobiography had a ...
... early nineteenth centuries is domi- nated by treatises , pamphlets , addresses , and appeals , all of which employ expostulatory means to confront the problem of the black situation in white America . Yet only black autobiography had a ...
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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