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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... sense of humor , have been a source of wonder and gratitude to me . Preliminary research for this book began under a grant from the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities . As a fellow of the Institute for Re- search in the Humanities ...
... sense of humor , have been a source of wonder and gratitude to me . Preliminary research for this book began under a grant from the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities . As a fellow of the Institute for Re- search in the Humanities ...
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... 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 con- sideration those elements of their ...
... 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 con- sideration those elements of their ...
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... 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 . Regardless of how we speak of the developing motifs and traditions of early black ...
... 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 . Regardless of how we speak of the developing motifs and traditions of early black ...
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... 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 . In some autobiographies we find a covert , often impromptu dis- course ...
... 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 . In some autobiographies we find a covert , often impromptu dis- course ...
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... sense that Ken- neth Burke has prescribed . All rhetorical action , he argues , arises from " the perception of generic divisiveness " among mankind . In its simplest forms , rhetoric , the art of persuasion , is designed to break down ...
... sense that Ken- neth Burke has prescribed . All rhetorical action , he argues , arises from " the perception of generic divisiveness " among mankind . In its simplest forms , rhetoric , the art of persuasion , is designed to break down ...
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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