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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... Afro-American autobiography was a genre chiefly distinguished by its rhetorical aims. During the first half of this century of evolution, most AfroAmerican autobiography addressed itself, directly or indirectly, to the proof of two ...
... Afro-American autobiography was a genre chiefly distinguished by its rhetorical aims. During the first half of this century of evolution, most AfroAmerican autobiography addressed itself, directly or indirectly, to the proof of two ...
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... freedom and imperfect truth in the American autobiographical tradition makes it easier for us to regard the fictive elements of black autobiography as aspects of rhetorical and aesthetic strategy, not evidence of moral failure.
... freedom and imperfect truth in the American autobiographical tradition makes it easier for us to regard the fictive elements of black autobiography as aspects of rhetorical and aesthetic strategy, not evidence of moral failure.
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9 A year later Newman published a pamphlet in which he reconstructed the process by which he decided to answer his attacker, via autobiography, rather than by some other mode of rhetorical defense.10 The priest knew there were many ...
9 A year later Newman published a pamphlet in which he reconstructed the process by which he decided to answer his attacker, via autobiography, rather than by some other mode of rhetorical defense.10 The priest knew there were many ...
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A few ex-slaves, however, in seeming ignorance or defiance of the rhetorical risk, made much of their despair and unassuaged outrage, their transgressions of Christian morality, and their unheroic behavior.
A few ex-slaves, however, in seeming ignorance or defiance of the rhetorical risk, made much of their despair and unassuaged outrage, their transgressions of Christian morality, and their unheroic behavior.
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Their modest prefaces and apologies for their poverty of expression were a traditional rhetorical ploy, looking back to ancient judicial oratory in which such self-effacing talk was intended to dispose judges favorably.15 The black ...
Their modest prefaces and apologies for their poverty of expression were a traditional rhetorical ploy, looking back to ancient judicial oratory in which such self-effacing talk was intended to dispose judges favorably.15 The black ...
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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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