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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... 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 1840s Chapter 5. The Uses of Marginality, 1850–65 Chapter 6. Culmination 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 1840s Chapter 5. The Uses of Marginality, 1850–65 Chapter 6. Culmination of a ...
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... Genre 1 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 1840s 32 61 97 Chapter 5. The Uses of Marginality , 1850-65 167 Chapter 6 ...
... Genre 1 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 1840s 32 61 97 Chapter 5. The Uses of Marginality , 1850-65 167 Chapter 6 ...
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... genre originated, evolved, and took on cultural significance.8 In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black American autobiography, this problem is compounded because of the unprecedented and largely unparalleled situation of ...
... genre originated, evolved, and took on cultural significance.8 In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black American autobiography, this problem is compounded because of the unprecedented and largely unparalleled situation of ...
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... genre's existence in the United States is that they " tell a free story " as well as talk about free- dom as a theme and goal of life . The history of Afro - American autobiog- raphy is one of increasingly free storytelling , signaled ...
... genre's existence in the United States is that they " tell a free story " as well as talk about free- dom as a theme and goal of life . The history of Afro - American autobiog- raphy is one of increasingly free storytelling , signaled ...
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... Genre Whatever else it is , autobiography stems more often than not from a need to explain and justify the self . In his seminal article on " conditions and limits of autobiography , " Georges Gusdorf says , " It is precisely in order ...
... Genre Whatever else it is , autobiography stems more often than not from a need to explain and justify the self . In his seminal article on " conditions and limits of autobiography , " Georges Gusdorf says , " It is precisely in order ...
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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