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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... Slave Narrative, 1760–1810,” in John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner, eds., The Art of Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24. Finally, I thank my wife Charron, who in some ways has always understood ...
... Slave Narrative, 1760–1810,” in John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner, eds., The Art of Slave Narrative (Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1982), pp. 6–24. Finally, I thank my wife Charron, who in some ways has always understood ...
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... narrative that exposed the institutional facts of slavery preferable to one that expressed the subjec- tive views of an individual slave . As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all first - person writing in 1840 , such literature could ...
... narrative that exposed the institutional facts of slavery preferable to one that expressed the subjec- tive views of an individual slave . As Ralph Waldo Emerson had written of all first - person writing in 1840 , such literature could ...
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... slave narrative the quest is toward freedom from physical bondage and the en- lightenment that literacy can offer to the restricted self- and social con- sciousness of the slave . Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black spiritual ...
... slave narrative the quest is toward freedom from physical bondage and the en- lightenment that literacy can offer to the restricted self- and social con- sciousness of the slave . Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black spiritual ...
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... slave narrative as simply a mode of antislavery propa- ganda on the one hand or a means of self - advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other . When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery ...
... slave narrative as simply a mode of antislavery propa- ganda on the one hand or a means of self - advertisement for ambitious former bondmen on the other . When we find a gap in a slave narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery ...
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... slave narrative , has been debated for decades . Led by Ulrich B. Phillips , the first historians of American slavery regarded slave narratives as merely an arm of abolitionist propaganda , strong in righteous indignation but weak in ...
... slave narrative , has been debated for decades . Led by Ulrich B. Phillips , the first historians of American slavery regarded slave narratives as merely an arm of abolitionist propaganda , strong in righteous indignation but weak in ...
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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