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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... facts in a slave narrative . From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause , abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black autobiographies would be ones that forced the ugly facts of " the peculiar institution " to the ...
... facts in a slave narrative . From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause , abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black autobiographies would be ones that forced the ugly facts of " the peculiar institution " to the ...
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... 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 or a deliberate effort by the narrator to grapple with aspects ...
... 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 or a deliberate effort by the narrator to grapple with aspects ...
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... facts of his or her life . 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 ...
... facts of his or her life . 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 ...
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... 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 contemplation as well as his belief or disbelief . Even in the ...
... 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 contemplation as well as his belief or disbelief . Even in the ...
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... factual substance . In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery could ... facts about slavery should not cause us to forget that as historical narratives they are subject to the same ...
... factual substance . In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery could ... facts about slavery should not cause us to forget that as historical narratives they are subject to the same ...
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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