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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... ways often at variance with literary conventions and social proprieties of discourse. Afro-American autobiography between 1760 and 1865 does not just record the process by which its protagonists became free of sin or slavery.
... ways often at variance with literary conventions and social proprieties of discourse. Afro-American autobiography between 1760 and 1865 does not just record the process by which its protagonists became free of sin or slavery.
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... this other tried to alienate the reader from these kinds of supports, thus disorienting but also freeing him or her to participate in a new kind of social and psychological agenda for the reading of black autobiography.
... this other tried to alienate the reader from these kinds of supports, thus disorienting but also freeing him or her to participate in a new kind of social and psychological agenda for the reading of black autobiography.
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In the slave narrative the quest is toward freedom from physical bondage and the enlightenment that literacy can offer to the restricted self- and social consciousness of the slave. Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black ...
In the slave narrative the quest is toward freedom from physical bondage and the enlightenment that literacy can offer to the restricted self- and social consciousness of the slave. Both the fugitive slave narrator and the black ...
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... black autobiography begins to redefine freedom as the power to integrate the unknown and the known within the self, not just the black into the white in the broader social context.14 Writing autobiography involved Afro-Americans of ...
... black autobiography begins to redefine freedom as the power to integrate the unknown and the known within the self, not just the black into the white in the broader social context.14 Writing autobiography involved Afro-Americans of ...
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... of their humanity, leveled at a blow with horses, sheep, horned cattle and swine! Horses and men—cattle and women—pigs and children—all holding the same rank in the scale of social existence; and all subjected to the same narrow.
... of their humanity, leveled at a blow with horses, sheep, horned cattle and swine! Horses and men—cattle and women—pigs and children—all holding the same rank in the scale of social existence; and all subjected to the same narrow.
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To tell a free story: the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1769-1865
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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