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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During the evolution of this tradition, autobiographers demonstrate through a variety of rhetorical means that they regard the writing of autobiography as in some ways uniquely selfliberating, the final, climactic act in the drama of ...
During the evolution of this tradition, autobiographers demonstrate through a variety of rhetorical means that they regard the writing of autobiography as in some ways uniquely selfliberating, the final, climactic act in the drama of ...
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Instead of defining the self according to traditional cultural models, greater and greater attention came to rest on ... of trustworthiness between peers—existed as a matter of course in the white American autobiographical tradition, ...
Instead of defining the self according to traditional cultural models, greater and greater attention came to rest on ... of trustworthiness between peers—existed as a matter of course in the white American autobiographical tradition, ...
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Today our sensitivity to the relativistic truth value of all autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect freedom and imperfect truth in the American autobiographical tradition makes it easier for us to regard the fictive ...
Today our sensitivity to the relativistic truth value of all autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect freedom and imperfect truth in the American autobiographical tradition makes it easier for us to regard the fictive ...
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In his study of Euro-American autobiographical tradition, Karl Weintraub finds a basic contrast between writers who identify with “great personality ideals in which their culture tends to embody its values and objectives” and other ...
In his study of Euro-American autobiographical tradition, Karl Weintraub finds a basic contrast between writers who identify with “great personality ideals in which their culture tends to embody its values and objectives” and other ...
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The “received texts,” the tradition that Afro-American autobiography “wishes to open” and force the reader “to esteem and estimate differently” (Bloom's emphasis), are the culture-defining scriptures of nineteenth-century America, ...
The “received texts,” the tradition that Afro-American autobiography “wishes to open” and force the reader “to esteem and estimate differently” (Bloom's emphasis), are the culture-defining scriptures of nineteenth-century America, ...
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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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