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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17 A similar sense of frustration may have led other narrators to translate the pattern of their lives into the myths and images of the predominant culture's traditions, while silently omitting from consideration those elements of their ...
17 A similar sense of frustration may have led other narrators to translate the pattern of their lives into the myths and images of the predominant culture's traditions, while silently omitting from consideration those elements of their ...
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... and diametrical opposites is due to this perception of America as bereft of a sense of the natural order of things and of the differences between things, so blinded had whites become because of their bigotry, greed, and fear.
... and diametrical opposites is due to this perception of America as bereft of a sense of the natural order of things and of the differences between things, so blinded had whites become because of their bigotry, greed, and fear.
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Often the only context or tradition that black autobiographers had was their sense of the state of black-white discourse on the questions of slavery, black identity, and the capacity of blacks for reliable discourse in the first place.
Often the only context or tradition that black autobiographers had was their sense of the state of black-white discourse on the questions of slavery, black identity, and the capacity of blacks for reliable discourse in the first place.
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The rhetoric of Afro-American autobiography, however, ought to be understood in the comprehensive sense that Kenneth Burke has prescribed. All rhetorical action, he argues, arises from “the perception of generic divisiveness” among ...
The rhetoric of Afro-American autobiography, however, ought to be understood in the comprehensive sense that Kenneth Burke has prescribed. All rhetorical action, he argues, arises from “the perception of generic divisiveness” among ...
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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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