To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865To 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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... one's place in the scheme of things by redefining the 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.
... one's place in the scheme of things by redefining the 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.
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Other blacks lamented the inadequacy of language itself to represent the horrors of slavery or the depth of their feelings as they reflected on their suffering. In some cases black narrators doubted their white readers' ability to ...
Other blacks lamented the inadequacy of language itself to represent the horrors of slavery or the depth of their feelings as they reflected on their suffering. In some cases black narrators doubted their white readers' ability to ...
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In some autobiographies we find a covert, often impromptu discourse on what the language of selfhood can mean when addressed to someone who doubts the selfhood of the addressor. At times this kind of reflectiveness and ...
In some autobiographies we find a covert, often impromptu discourse on what the language of selfhood can mean when addressed to someone who doubts the selfhood of the addressor. At times this kind of reflectiveness and ...
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George Thompson, a noted British abolitionist who served as the amanuensis for the Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, said that he had committed the story to paper “as nearly as possible in the language of Moses himself” without ...
George Thompson, a noted British abolitionist who served as the amanuensis for the Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, said that he had committed the story to paper “as nearly as possible in the language of Moses himself” without ...
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... alien from the speaker or his interests, rhetoric becomes the means by which the latter attempts to identify with the former. A speaker may seek to affirm his identity with his audience by proving that he can talk their language “by ...
... alien from the speaker or his interests, rhetoric becomes the means by which the latter attempts to identify with the former. A speaker may seek to affirm his identity with his audience by proving that he can talk their language “by ...
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To tell a free story: the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1769-1865
Avis d'utilisateur - Not Available - Book VerdictAndrews describes and analyzes many autobiographies here, but his primary focus is on "slave narratives'' by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (a.k.a. Linda Brent), and J. D. Green. He convincingly ... Consulter l'avis complet
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| Titre | To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 |
| Auteur | William L. Andrews |
| Éditeur | University of Illinois Press, 2022 |
| ISBN | 0252054636, 9780252054631 |
| Longueur | 368 pages |
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