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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Henry David Thoreau began his account of his 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.”3 Thoreau did not bother to explain how one might ...
Henry David Thoreau began his account of his 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.”3 Thoreau did not bother to explain how one might ...
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... and nineteenth-century America in general, could not be used to measure the value of Afro-American autobiography since the demands of truthfulness and selfpreservation were often at odds in the experience of blacks in America.
... and nineteenth-century America in general, could not be used to measure the value of Afro-American autobiography since the demands of truthfulness and selfpreservation were often at odds in the experience of blacks in America.
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Yet speaking too revealingly of the individual self, particularly if this did not correspond to white notions of the facts of black experience or the nature of the Negro, risked alienating white sponsors and readers, too.
Yet speaking too revealingly of the individual self, particularly if this did not correspond to white notions of the facts of black experience or the nature of the Negro, risked alienating white sponsors and readers, too.
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... rendering of their 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 ...
... rendering of their 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 ...
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consideration those elements of their experience that did not fit. However, as black autobiography developed into the nineteenth century, some narrators set out on intellectual quests for tropes through which they could embody in most ...
consideration those elements of their experience that did not fit. However, as black autobiography developed into the nineteenth century, some narrators set out on intellectual quests for tropes through which they could embody in most ...
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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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