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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The history of Afro-American autobiography is one of increasingly free storytelling, signaled in the ways black narratives address their readers and reconstruct personal history, ways often at variance with literary conventions and ...
The history of Afro-American autobiography is one of increasingly free storytelling, signaled in the ways black narratives address their readers and reconstruct personal history, ways often at variance with literary conventions and ...
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Prevailing norms for judging propriety in behavior, speech, and writing came to be judged according to the personal standards of some narrative “other.” This other was a good deal less solicitous of the white reader's empathy and trust ...
Prevailing norms for judging propriety in behavior, speech, and writing came to be judged according to the personal standards of some narrative “other.” This other was a good deal less solicitous of the white reader's empathy and trust ...
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... that they could not assume an equal relationship with the average white American reader, blacks set about writing life stories that would somehow prove that they qualified as the moral, spiritual, or intellectual peers of whites.
... that they could not assume an equal relationship with the average white American reader, blacks set about writing life stories that would somehow prove that they qualified as the moral, spiritual, or intellectual peers of whites.
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From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause, abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black autobiographies would be ones that forced the ugly facts of “the peculiar institution” to the forefront of a reader's attention ...
From the standpoint of the advancement of the cause, abolitionists naturally felt that the most useful black autobiographies would be ones that forced the ugly facts of “the peculiar institution” to the forefront of a reader's attention ...
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In some cases black narrators doubted their white readers' ability to translate the words ... merely factual content, worthy of display in a pattern that inevitably invites the reader's contemplation as well as his belief or disbelief.
In some cases black narrators doubted their white readers' ability to translate the words ... merely factual content, worthy of display in a pattern that inevitably invites the reader's contemplation as well as his belief or disbelief.
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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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