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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... experience of blacks in America. Yet Howe was himself a prisoner of the semantic dichotomies of nineteenth-century moralizing; he could think of no label other than “falsehood” to apply to the words of a black narrator who could not see ...
... experience of blacks in America. Yet Howe was himself a prisoner of the semantic dichotomies of nineteenth-century moralizing; he could think of no label other than “falsehood” to apply to the words of a black narrator who could not see ...
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... experience at Walden Pond by declaring , " I , on my side , require of every writer , first or last , a simple and sincere account of his own life . " Thoreau did not bother to explain how one might prove one's sincerity . No doubt ...
... experience at Walden Pond by declaring , " I , on my side , require of every writer , first or last , a simple and sincere account of his own life . " Thoreau did not bother to explain how one might prove one's sincerity . No doubt ...
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... experience of blacks in America . Yet Howe was himself a prisoner of the semantic dichotomies of nineteenth - century moralizing ; he could think of no label other than " falsehood " to apply to the words of a black narrator who could ...
... experience of blacks in America . Yet Howe was himself a prisoner of the semantic dichotomies of nineteenth - century moralizing ; he could think of no label other than " falsehood " to apply to the words of a black narrator who could ...
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... experience and feelings . On other occasions narrators questioned whether whites even wanted a thorough account of the truth of slavery . In the aggregate , these statements indicate that in their attempt to build a community of ...
... experience and feelings . On other occasions narrators questioned whether whites even wanted a thorough account of the truth of slavery . In the aggregate , these statements indicate that in their attempt to build a community of ...
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... experience in story form requires that one judge certain facts of one's life to be reportable , that is , signifi- cant beyond their merely factual content , worthy of display in a pattern that inevitably invites the reader's ...
... experience in story form requires that one judge certain facts of one's life to be reportable , that is , signifi- cant beyond their merely factual content , worthy of display in a pattern that inevitably invites the reader's ...
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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