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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... 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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Here we have a much more problematic relationship between subject and modifier, which cannot be resolved simply by transferring the question to an abstract or ideal plane of consideration. If a slave insurrectionist has the attributes ...
Here we have a much more problematic relationship between subject and modifier, which cannot be resolved simply by transferring the question to an abstract or ideal plane of consideration. If a slave insurrectionist has the attributes ...
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... black and white Inarrators of the American renaissance used metaphors whose “emergent meaning” was not just a function of preexistent similarities between a subject and a modifier but was an organic outgrowth of the relationship of ...
... black and white Inarrators of the American renaissance used metaphors whose “emergent meaning” was not just a function of preexistent similarities between a subject and a modifier but was an organic outgrowth of the relationship of ...
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... Thus as black autobiography necessarily establishes its relationship to the essential texts of oppressive American culture, it also becomes a revisionistic instrument in the hands of its greatest practitioners.
... Thus as black autobiography necessarily establishes its relationship to the essential texts of oppressive American culture, it also becomes a revisionistic instrument in the hands of its greatest practitioners.
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When people, events, or relationships present a problem that can be affected or alleviated by the use of discourse ... The words of a speaker or writer are always engaged in a “dialogic relationship” with alien words that a listener or ...
When people, events, or relationships present a problem that can be affected or alleviated by the use of discourse ... The words of a speaker or writer are always engaged in a “dialogic relationship” with alien words that a listener or ...
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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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