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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... with an individual slave . Many ex - slaves were quite willing to accede to this expectation , espe- cially when told by their abolitionist sponsors that their skeptical 5 The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
... with an individual slave . Many ex - slaves were quite willing to accede to this expectation , espe- cially when told by their abolitionist sponsors that their skeptical 5 The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
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... individual slave . As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all first - person writing in 1840 , such literature could be judged according to " whether it leads us to nature , or to the person of the writer . The great always introduce us ...
... individual slave . As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all first - person writing in 1840 , such literature could be judged according to " whether it leads us to nature , or to the person of the writer . The great always introduce us ...
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... individual's past or a public demonstration of the qualities of selfhood or a private medita- tion on the meaning of a life of struggle . The writing of autobiography became an attempt to open an intercourse with the white world . Often ...
... individual's past or a public demonstration of the qualities of selfhood or a private medita- tion on the meaning of a life of struggle . The writing of autobiography became an attempt to open an intercourse with the white world . Often ...
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... individual experience and may be discerned through that experience " as recorded in an autobiography . " Because the ontology of autobiography is so problematic , it seems to me more fruitful to treat the form more as a complex of ...
... individual experience and may be discerned through that experience " as recorded in an autobiography . " Because the ontology of autobiography is so problematic , it seems to me more fruitful to treat the form more as a complex of ...
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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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