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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Many ex-slaves were quite willing to accede to this expectation, especially when told by their abolitionist sponsors that their skeptical public would believe nothing but documentable facts in a slave narrative.
Many ex-slaves were quite willing to accede to this expectation, especially when told by their abolitionist sponsors that their skeptical public would believe nothing but documentable facts in a slave narrative.
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When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery, or a lapse in his prepossessing self-image, we must pay special attention. These deviations may indicate either a momentary loss of narrative control ...
When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery, or a lapse in his prepossessing self-image, we must pay special attention. These deviations may indicate either a momentary loss of narrative control ...
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The promise of a straightforward rendition of facts allowed the black narrator to pose as an artless and unaffected person whose simple narrative manner bore the conviction of truth that white Protestants in America had traditionally ...
The promise of a straightforward rendition of facts allowed the black narrator to pose as an artless and unaffected person whose simple narrative manner bore the conviction of truth that white Protestants in America had traditionally ...
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29 However, the proven reliability of these narratives as sourcebooks of facts about slavery should not cause us to forget that as historical narratives they are subject to the same “poetic processes” of composition as any other works ...
29 However, the proven reliability of these narratives as sourcebooks of facts about slavery should not cause us to forget that as historical narratives they are subject to the same “poetic processes” of composition as any other works ...
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But we must remember that in any slave narrative, no matter how verifiable in its particulars, “the facts do not speak for themselves.” It is the narrator, the imputed eye-witness historian, who “speaks on their behalf, and fashions the ...
But we must remember that in any slave narrative, no matter how verifiable in its particulars, “the facts do not speak for themselves.” It is the narrator, the imputed eye-witness historian, who “speaks on their behalf, and fashions the ...
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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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