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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From these beginnings to the “year of Jubilo” in 1865 when full emancipation was proclaimed, black American autobiography evolved into a complex “oratorical” mode best exemplified in the narratives of exslaves who had become master ...
From these beginnings to the “year of Jubilo” in 1865 when full emancipation was proclaimed, black American autobiography evolved into a complex “oratorical” mode best exemplified in the narratives of exslaves who had become master ...
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9 A year later Newman published a pamphlet in which he reconstructed the process by which he decided to answer his attacker, via autobiography, rather than by some other mode of rhetorical defense.10 The priest knew there were many ...
9 A year later Newman published a pamphlet in which he reconstructed the process by which he decided to answer his attacker, via autobiography, rather than by some other mode of rhetorical defense.10 The priest knew there were many ...
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... a mode of antislavery propaganda on the one hand or a 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 ...
... a mode of antislavery propaganda on the one hand or a 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 ...
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What Charles Feidelson says of the Romantic metaphor in Symbolism and American Literature applies no less to black autobiographers who explored this mode: from their metaphors emerge meanings that could not “fully exist” apart from the ...
What Charles Feidelson says of the Romantic metaphor in Symbolism and American Literature applies no less to black autobiographers who explored this mode: from their metaphors emerge meanings that could not “fully exist” apart from the ...
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It urges revision of the myths and ideals of America's culture-defining scriptures while it demands new sight of white readers to recognize the ways in which autobiography had become a mode of Afro-American scripture.
It urges revision of the myths and ideals of America's culture-defining scriptures while it demands new sight of white readers to recognize the ways in which autobiography had become a mode of Afro-American scripture.
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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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