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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... past or to the social , political , and sometimes even the moral exigencies of the present . This book does not contend , of course , that all early Afro - American autobiography tells its story in an equally free manner , only that ...
... past or to the social , political , and sometimes even the moral exigencies of the present . This book does not contend , of course , that all early Afro - American autobiography tells its story in an equally free manner , only that ...
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... past and to banish oneself in the most fundamental ways from one's own auto- biography . Yet speaking too revealingly of the individual self , particularly if this did not correspond to white notions of the facts of black experi- ence ...
... past and to banish oneself in the most fundamental ways from one's own auto- biography . Yet speaking too revealingly of the individual self , particularly if this did not correspond to white notions of the facts of black experi- ence ...
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... past in a 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 ...
... past in a 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 ...
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... Some narratives , however , sound a different note by recording a continual upsurge of the shadow as the autobiographer , caught up in the creative retrieval of the past , no longer responds as readily to 8 To Tell a Free Story.
... Some narratives , however , sound a different note by recording a continual upsurge of the shadow as the autobiographer , caught up in the creative retrieval of the past , no longer responds as readily to 8 To Tell a Free Story.
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... past , no longer responds as readily to the mechanisms of repres sion . The danger for these black self - explorers is succumbing to the racist myth that the dark self within is the essence of their primitive , anarchic " black self ...
... past , no longer responds as readily to the mechanisms of repres sion . The danger for these black self - explorers is succumbing to the racist myth that the dark self within is the essence of their primitive , anarchic " black self ...
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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