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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The thesis of this book, simply put, is this: the import of the autobiographies of black people during the first century of the genre's existence in the United States is that they “tell a free story” as well as talk about freedom as a ...
The thesis of this book, simply put, is this: the import of the autobiographies of black people during the first century of the genre's existence in the United States is that they “tell a free story” as well as talk about freedom as a ...
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Today our sensitivity to the relativistic truth value of all autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect freedom and imperfect truth in the American autobiographical tradition makes it easier for us to regard the fictive ...
Today our sensitivity to the relativistic truth value of all autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect freedom and imperfect truth in the American autobiographical tradition makes it easier for us to regard the fictive ...
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In the slave narrative the quest is toward freedom from physical bondage and the enlightenment that literacy can offer to the restricted self- and social consciousness of the slave. Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black ...
In the slave narrative the quest is toward freedom from physical bondage and the enlightenment that literacy can offer to the restricted self- and social consciousness of the slave. Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black ...
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When the unconscious finds vehicles of expression and engages the conscious mind in creative interaction, black autobiography begins to redefine freedom as the power to integrate the unknown and the known within the self, ...
When the unconscious finds vehicles of expression and engages the conscious mind in creative interaction, black autobiography begins to redefine freedom as the power to integrate the unknown and the known within the self, ...
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A more direct William Craft in 1860 promised in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom that “a similar retribution to that which destroyed Sodom is hanging over the slaveholders” unless they repented their “reckless course of wickedness.
A more direct William Craft in 1860 promised in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom that “a similar retribution to that which destroyed Sodom is hanging over the slaveholders” unless they repented their “reckless course of wickedness.
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To tell a free story: the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1769-1865
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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