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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... literary acts. Many undoubtedly realized that they would have to defend or explain away the same literary egoism that in a white autobiographer might be praised as American pride and selfreliance at its best.4 Knowing that they could ...
... literary acts. Many undoubtedly realized that they would have to defend or explain away the same literary egoism that in a white autobiographer might be praised as American pride and selfreliance at its best.4 Knowing that they could ...
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... literary conventions and social proprieties of dis- course . Afro - American autobiography between 1760 and 1865 does not just record the process by which its protagonists became free of sin or slavery . During the evolution of this ...
... literary conventions and social proprieties of dis- course . Afro - American autobiography between 1760 and 1865 does not just record the process by which its protagonists became free of sin or slavery . During the evolution of this ...
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... literary criticism when I approached the question of interpreting Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . James Olney , Robert Stepto , and Henry Louis Gates , Jr. , read this book in manuscript and gave me the kind of encouraging ...
... literary criticism when I approached the question of interpreting Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . James Olney , Robert Stepto , and Henry Louis Gates , Jr. , read this book in manuscript and gave me the kind of encouraging ...
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... literary acts . Many undoubtedly realized that they would have to defend or explain away the same literary egoism that in a white autobiographer might be praised as American pride and self- reliance at its best . Knowing that they could ...
... literary acts . Many undoubtedly realized that they would have to defend or explain away the same literary egoism that in a white autobiographer might be praised as American pride and self- reliance at its best . Knowing that they could ...
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... literary game or refusing to play , they set about changing the rules by which the game was played even as they played along with it . White American readers believed that truth about slavery could be revealed through an objective ...
... literary game or refusing to play , they set about changing the rules by which the game was played even as they played along with it . White American readers believed that truth about slavery could be revealed through an objective ...
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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