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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The history of Afro-American autobiography is one of increasingly free storytelling, signaled in the ways black narratives address their readers and reconstruct personal history, ways often at variance with literary conventions and ...
The history of Afro-American autobiography is one of increasingly free storytelling, signaled in the ways black narratives address their readers and reconstruct personal history, ways often at variance with literary conventions and ...
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... values and literary expectations, this other tried to alienate the reader from these kinds of supports, thus disorienting but also freeing him or her to participate in a new kind of social and psychological agenda for the reading of ...
... values and literary expectations, this other tried to alienate the reader from these kinds of supports, thus disorienting but also freeing him or her to participate in a new kind of social and psychological agenda for the reading of ...
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addressed the white world, however, they could assume no such sanction for their self-affirming literary acts. Many undoubtedly realized that they would have to defend or explain away the same literary egoism that in a white ...
addressed the white world, however, they could assume no such sanction for their self-affirming literary acts. Many undoubtedly realized that they would have to defend or explain away the same literary egoism that in a white ...
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Instead of either conforming to the rules of the 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 ...
Instead of either conforming to the rules of the 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 ...
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Many narrators who said they were unequal to the task that writing put before them became eloquent in the admission of their supposed literary ineptitude. Their modest prefaces and apologies for their poverty of expression were a ...
Many narrators who said they were unequal to the task that writing put before them became eloquent in the admission of their supposed literary ineptitude. Their modest prefaces and apologies for their poverty of expression were a ...
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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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