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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... important insights into the kinds of freedom their writers hoped to enact for themselves through their literary efforts . Given the uncertain status of Negroes , especially fugitive slaves , in the so - called free states of the ...
... important insights into the kinds of freedom their writers hoped to enact for themselves through their literary efforts . Given the uncertain status of Negroes , especially fugitive slaves , in the so - called free states of the ...
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... important black autobiographies of this era , however , a quest more psycholiterary than spiritual can be discerned . It is spurred by many motives , perhaps the most important of which is the need of an other to declare himself through ...
... important black autobiographies of this era , however , a quest more psycholiterary than spiritual can be discerned . It is spurred by many motives , perhaps the most important of which is the need of an other to declare himself through ...
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... important problems for inter- pretations of the slave narrative as simply a mode of antislavery propa- ganda on the one hand or a means of self - advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other . When we find a gap in a slave ...
... important problems for inter- pretations of the slave narrative as simply a mode of antislavery propa- ganda on the one hand or a means of self - advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other . When we find a gap in a slave ...
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... important , that it offer an opportunity for a sincere relation with someone else . " In other words , to write autobiography one must take one's own life ( or some major por- tion of it ) seriously enough to find in it a significance ...
... important , that it offer an opportunity for a sincere relation with someone else . " In other words , to write autobiography one must take one's own life ( or some major por- tion of it ) seriously enough to find in it a significance ...
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... important to recognize , as speech - act theorists have pointed out , that even the sim- plest factual utterances depend on the rules and values of extralinguistic institutions for their meaning . Socioeconomic , moral , and aesthetic ...
... important to recognize , as speech - act theorists have pointed out , that even the sim- plest factual utterances depend on the rules and values of extralinguistic institutions for their meaning . Socioeconomic , moral , and aesthetic ...
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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