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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... identity and veracity underwent much revision . Instead of defining the self according to traditional cultural models , greater and greater attention came to rest on those aspects of the self outside the margins of the normal , the ...
... identity and veracity underwent much revision . Instead of defining the self according to traditional cultural models , greater and greater attention came to rest on those aspects of the self outside the margins of the normal , the ...
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... identity and veracity problematically intermeshed in their own mutual relativity . Henry David Thoreau began his account of his experience at Walden Pond by declaring , " I , on my side , require of every writer , first or last , a ...
... identity and veracity problematically intermeshed in their own mutual relativity . Henry David Thoreau began his account of his experience at Walden Pond by declaring , " I , on my side , require of every writer , first or last , a ...
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... identity with and rightful participa- tion in logos , whether understood as reason and its expression in speech or as divine spirit . The climax of the quests of both kinds of auto- biographer usually comes when they seize the ...
... identity with and rightful participa- tion in logos , whether understood as reason and its expression in speech or as divine spirit . The climax of the quests of both kinds of auto- biographer usually comes when they seize the ...
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... identity between Mr. Christian and the narrator as pilgrims that makes it possible to accept the one as an attribute of the other without challenging our presuppositions about either . The metaphorical twist here functions as it does in ...
... identity between Mr. Christian and the narrator as pilgrims that makes it possible to accept the one as an attribute of the other without challenging our presuppositions about either . The metaphorical twist here functions as it does in ...
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... identity , and the capacity of blacks for reliable discourse in the first place . In some autobiographies we find a covert , often impromptu dis- course on what the language of selfhood can mean when addressed to someone who doubts the ...
... identity , and the capacity of blacks for reliable discourse in the first place . In some autobiographies we find a covert , often impromptu dis- course on what the language of selfhood can mean when addressed to someone who doubts the ...
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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