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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... true , and that it is more likely that one should be to blame , than that many should be mistaken in blam- ing him ; these are the real foes which I have to fight . " To " break through this barrier of prejudice against me , " Newman de ...
... true , and that it is more likely that one should be to blame , than that many should be mistaken in blam- ing him ; these are the real foes which I have to fight . " To " break through this barrier of prejudice against me , " Newman de ...
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... true key to my whole life ; I must show what I am , that it may be seen what I am not , and that the phantom may be extinguished which gibbers instead of me . I wish to be known as a living man , and not as a scarecrow which is dressed ...
... true key to my whole life ; I must show what I am , that it may be seen what I am not , and that the phantom may be extinguished which gibbers instead of me . I wish to be known as a living man , and not as a scarecrow which is dressed ...
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... True metaphors reveal new and infinitely paraphraseable meanings of words in unexpected contexts , by introducing a tension , a " logical absurdity " in Beardsley's terms , between the significations of the " principal subject " -what ...
... True metaphors reveal new and infinitely paraphraseable meanings of words in unexpected contexts , by introducing a tension , a " logical absurdity " in Beardsley's terms , between the significations of the " principal subject " -what ...
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... true self . " " The history of Afro - American autobiog- raphy in its formative century reflects these contrasting views of the self in a creative dialectic . In some respects the image of the Negro evolves from models imported from the ...
... true self . " " The history of Afro - American autobiog- raphy in its formative century reflects these contrasting views of the self in a creative dialectic . In some respects the image of the Negro evolves from models imported from the ...
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... true . We shall see , however , that as a dis- cursive instead of a documentary mode , black autobiography is designed to establish the grounds on which one may decide what will count as fact in a narrative and what mode of ...
... true . We shall see , however , that as a dis- cursive instead of a documentary mode , black autobiography is designed to establish the grounds on which one may decide what will count as fact in a narrative and what mode of ...
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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