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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Given the uncertain status of Negroes, especially fugitive slaves, in the so-called free states of the antebellum ... on feminist literary criticism when I approached the question of interpreting Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Given the uncertain status of Negroes, especially fugitive slaves, in the so-called free states of the antebellum ... on feminist literary criticism when I approached the question of interpreting Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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... American Anti-Slavery Society warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North: “Simplehearted and truthful, as these fugitives appeared to be, you must recollect that they are slaves — and that the slave, as a general thing, ...
... American Anti-Slavery Society warned the public about the fugitive slave in the North: “Simplehearted and truthful, as these fugitives appeared to be, you must recollect that they are slaves — and that the slave, as a general thing, ...
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Most slave narrators knew that the public did not read their stories primarily to find out what sorts of men these ... Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black spiritual autobiographer trace their freedom back to an awakening of ...
Most slave narrators knew that the public did not read their stories primarily to find out what sorts of men these ... Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black spiritual autobiographer trace their freedom back to an awakening of ...
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reclamation of the Afro-American's spiritual birthright, the fugitive slave narrative could not have made such a cogent case for black civil rights in the crisis years between 1830 and 1865. In a number of important black ...
reclamation of the Afro-American's spiritual birthright, the fugitive slave narrative could not have made such a cogent case for black civil rights in the crisis years between 1830 and 1865. In a number of important black ...
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In his Narrative of 1849, the fugitive Henry Bibb echoed Marrant on the inadequacy of language, although by this time the unspeakable hellishness of slavery, not the ineffable bliss of salvation, had become the text of most black ...
In his Narrative of 1849, the fugitive Henry Bibb echoed Marrant on the inadequacy of language, although by this time the unspeakable hellishness of slavery, not the ineffable bliss of salvation, had become the text of most black ...
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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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