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 First Century of Afro-American Autobiography: Notes toward a Definition of a Genre Chapter 2. Voices of the First Fifty Years, 1760–1810 Chapter 3. Experiments in Two Modes, 1810–40 Chapter 4. The Performance of Slave Narrative in ...
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography: Notes toward a Definition of a Genre Chapter 2. Voices of the First Fifty Years, 1760–1810 Chapter 3. Experiments in Two Modes, 1810–40 Chapter 4. The Performance of Slave Narrative in ...
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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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Genre. Whatever else it is, autobiography stems more often than not from a need to explain and justify the self. ... initial appearance of the genre in 1760 to begin to prove that no one could do justice to himself better than himself.
Genre. Whatever else it is, autobiography stems more often than not from a need to explain and justify the self. ... initial appearance of the genre in 1760 to begin to prove that no one could do justice to himself better than himself.
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... unearthing (or reconstruction) of the full context in which a genre originated, evolved, and took on cultural significance.8 In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black American autobiography, this problem is compounded ...
... unearthing (or reconstruction) of the full context in which a genre originated, evolved, and took on cultural significance.8 In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black American autobiography, this problem is compounded ...
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It is also possible to see the genre evolving from what Olney has termed “autobiography simplex,” in which a single dominant faculty or motif becomes the focus of attention instead of the complex, variegated self.22 Or one might ...
It is also possible to see the genre evolving from what Olney has termed “autobiography simplex,” in which a single dominant faculty or motif becomes the focus of attention instead of the complex, variegated self.22 Or one might ...
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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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