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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... means that they regard the writing of autobiography as in some ways uniquely self - liberating , the final , cli- mactic act in the drama of their lifelong quests for freedom . Such narra- tives provide important insights into the kinds ...
... means that they regard the writing of autobiography as in some ways uniquely self - liberating , the final , cli- mactic act in the drama of their lifelong quests for freedom . Such narra- tives provide important insights into the kinds ...
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... means to confront the problem of the black situation in white America . Yet only black autobiography had a mass impact on the conscience of antebellum Americans . Did early black narrators realize as clearly as Newman did that this form ...
... means to confront the problem of the black situation in white America . Yet only black autobiography had a mass impact on the conscience of antebellum Americans . Did early black narrators realize as clearly as Newman did that this form ...
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... mean- ingful and instructive form , the appropriating of empowering myths and models of the self from any available resource , and the redefining of one's place in the scheme of things by redefining the language used to locate one in ...
... mean- ingful and instructive form , the appropriating of empowering myths and models of the self from any available resource , and the redefining of one's place in the scheme of things by redefining the language used to locate one in ...
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... means of self - advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other . When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery , or a lapse in his prepossessing self - image , we must pay special ...
... means of self - advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other . When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery , or a lapse in his prepossessing self - image , we must pay special ...
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... mean to treat early black autobiography as dis- course as well as history ? In one respect , the discursive nature of black autobiography is simply a function of its rhetorical situation . As Lloyd F. Bitzer explains , all communication ...
... mean to treat early black autobiography as dis- course as well as history ? In one respect , the discursive nature of black autobiography is simply a function of its rhetorical situation . As Lloyd F. Bitzer explains , all communication ...
Table des matières
| 1 | |
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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