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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... social proprieties of dis- course . Afro - American autobiography between 1760 and 1865 does not just record the process by which its protagonists became free of sin or slavery . During the evolution of this tradition , autobiographers ...
... social proprieties of dis- course . Afro - American autobiography between 1760 and 1865 does not just record the process by which its protagonists became free of sin or slavery . During the evolution of this tradition , autobiographers ...
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... social and psychological agenda for the reading of black autobiography . By the end of the first century of Afro - American autobiography , the genre had become the scene of a com- plex discursive encounter presided over by a self ...
... social and psychological agenda for the reading of black autobiography . By the end of the first century of Afro - American autobiography , the genre had become the scene of a com- plex discursive encounter presided over by a self ...
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... social con- sciousness of the slave . Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black spiritual autobiographer trace their freedom back to an awakening of their awareness of their fundamental identity with and rightful participa- tion in ...
... social con- sciousness of the slave . Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black spiritual autobiographer trace their freedom back to an awakening of their awareness of their fundamental identity with and rightful participa- tion in ...
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... social context . ' Writing autobiography involved Afro - Americans of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in yet another kind of journey , a search for language through which the unknown within the self and the unspeak ...
... social context . ' Writing autobiography involved Afro - Americans of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in yet another kind of journey , a search for language through which the unknown within the self and the unspeak ...
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... social existence ; and all subjected to the same narrow inspection , to ascertain their value in gold and silver - the only standard of worth applied by slaveholders to slaves ! How vividly , at that moment , did the brutalizing power ...
... social existence ; and all subjected to the same narrow inspection , to ascertain their value in gold and silver - the only standard of worth applied by slaveholders to slaves ! How vividly , at that moment , did the brutalizing power ...
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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