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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... mode best exemplified in the narratives of ex - slaves who had become master rhetoricians on the antislavery lecture circuit.2 In the first 100 years of its existence , Afro - American autobiography was a genre chiefly distinguished by ...
... mode best exemplified in the narratives of ex - slaves who had become master rhetoricians on the antislavery lecture circuit.2 In the first 100 years of its existence , Afro - American autobiography was a genre chiefly distinguished by ...
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... mode of rhetorical defense.10 The priest knew there were many obstacles in the way of his being favorably heard . By virtue of his Catholicism he was regarded as " a mem- ber of a most un - English communion , ” an alien and a ...
... mode of rhetorical defense.10 The priest knew there were many obstacles in the way of his being favorably heard . By virtue of his Catholicism he was regarded as " a mem- ber of a most un - English communion , ” an alien and a ...
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... mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other than those already occupied by pro- and antislavery polemics . " Argument provokes argument , " the editor of the Boston Chronotype concluded about the ...
... mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other than those already occupied by pro- and antislavery polemics . " Argument provokes argument , " the editor of the Boston Chronotype concluded about the ...
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... mode of antislavery propa- ganda 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 ...
... mode of antislavery propa- ganda 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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... mode : from their metaphors emerge meanings that could not " fully exist " apart from the whole that only comes into exis- tence itself as a result of the metaphors ' having been created.20 Through this circular logic of the metaphor ...
... mode : from their metaphors emerge meanings that could not " fully exist " apart from the whole that only comes into exis- tence itself as a result of the metaphors ' having been created.20 Through this circular logic of the metaphor ...
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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