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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... brother” to whites, especially to the white reader of slave narratives; and (2) that the black narrator was, despite all prejudice and propaganda, a truth-teller, a reliable transcriber of the experience and character of black folk.
... brother” to whites, especially to the white reader of slave narratives; and (2) that the black narrator was, despite all prejudice and propaganda, a truth-teller, a reliable transcriber of the experience and character of black folk.
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Yet Howe was himself a prisoner of the semantic dichotomies of nineteenth-century moralizing; he could think of no label other than “falsehood” to apply to the words of a black narrator who could not see his way clear to “live in the ...
Yet Howe was himself a prisoner of the semantic dichotomies of nineteenth-century moralizing; he could think of no label other than “falsehood” to apply to the words of a black narrator who could not see his way clear to “live in the ...
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Did early black narrators realize as clearly as Newman did that this form of witnessing before a skeptical public ... Certainly experienced abolitionists recognized that first-person narration, with its promise of intimate glimpses into ...
Did early black narrators realize as clearly as Newman did that this form of witnessing before a skeptical public ... Certainly experienced abolitionists recognized that first-person narration, with its promise of intimate glimpses into ...
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Most slave narrators knew that the public did not read their stories primarily to find out what sorts of men these ... about slavery could be revealed through an objective recital of facts from an eyewitness, first-person narrator.
Most slave narrators knew that the public did not read their stories primarily to find out what sorts of men these ... about slavery could be revealed through an objective recital of facts from an eyewitness, first-person narrator.
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Some slave narrators, perhaps more politic than apologetic, professed conscientious regret for the violence, duplicity, ... When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery, or a lapse in his ...
Some slave narrators, perhaps more politic than apologetic, professed conscientious regret for the violence, duplicity, ... 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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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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