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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... language used to locate one in that scheme . Reconstructing their past lives required many ex - slaves to undergo a disquieting psychic immersion into their former selves as slaves . During this journey backward and within , a ...
... language used to locate one in that scheme . Reconstructing their past lives required many ex - slaves to undergo a disquieting psychic immersion into their former selves as slaves . During this journey backward and within , a ...
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... language through which the unknown within the self and the unspeak- able within slavery might be expressed . Many narratives reveal this to have been a frustrating , even anguishing mental and emotional struggle . Rare was the ...
... language through which the unknown within the self and the unspeak- able within slavery might be expressed . Many narratives reveal this to have been a frustrating , even anguishing mental and emotional struggle . Rare was the ...
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... language itself to signify his experience of divine love : " O where shall we find language sufficient to celebrate his praises ? " In his Narrative of 1849 , the fugitive Henry Bibb echoed Marrant on the inadequacy of language ...
... language itself to signify his experience of divine love : " O where shall we find language sufficient to celebrate his praises ? " In his Narrative of 1849 , the fugitive Henry Bibb echoed Marrant on the inadequacy of language ...
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... language of selfhood can mean when addressed to someone who doubts the selfhood of the addressor . At times this kind of reflectiveness and self - consciousness produces what might be called a running metadiscourse on the assumptions ...
... language of selfhood can mean when addressed to someone who doubts the selfhood of the addressor . At times this kind of reflectiveness and self - consciousness produces what might be called a running metadiscourse on the assumptions ...
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... language of Moses himself " without " casting a single reflection or animadversion of my own . " Samuel A. Eliot described The Life of Josiah Henson as “ written from the dictation of Josiah Henson . A portion of the story was told ...
... language of Moses himself " without " casting a single reflection or animadversion of my own . " Samuel A. Eliot described The Life of Josiah Henson as “ written from the dictation of Josiah Henson . A portion of the story was told ...
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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