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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... significance.8 In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black American autobiography, this problem is compounded because of the unprecedented and largely unparalleled situation of black self-writers and their white audience ...
... significance.8 In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black American autobiography, this problem is compounded because of the unprecedented and largely unparalleled situation of black self-writers and their white audience ...
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... significance . In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth - century black American autobiography , this problem is compounded because of the unprecedented and largely unparalleled situation of black self - writers and their white ...
... significance . In the case of eighteenth- and nineteenth - century black American autobiography , this problem is compounded because of the unprecedented and largely unparalleled situation of black self - writers and their white ...
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... significance that makes recon- structing that life valuable to another . In keeping with both the self- and other - directedness of autobiography , Starobinski's labeling of the genre as " discourse - history " seems a helpful kind of ...
... significance that makes recon- structing that life valuable to another . In keeping with both the self- and other - directedness of autobiography , Starobinski's labeling of the genre as " discourse - history " seems a helpful kind of ...
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... significance in a narrative consonant with the aim of the autobiographer . Thus Afro - American autobiography medi- ates between historical , rhetorical , and tropological truth within the dis- cursive framework of " narrative patterns ...
... significance in a narrative consonant with the aim of the autobiographer . Thus Afro - American autobiography medi- ates between historical , rhetorical , and tropological truth within the dis- cursive framework of " narrative patterns ...
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... significance to its factual substance . Readers of black autobiography then and now have too readily ac- cepted the presumption of these eighteenth- and nineteenth - century edi- tors : namely , that the experiential facts recounted ...
... significance to its factual substance . Readers of black autobiography then and now have too readily ac- cepted the presumption of these eighteenth- and nineteenth - century edi- tors : namely , that the experiential facts recounted ...
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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