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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... something must be true, and that it is more likely that one should be to blame, than that many should be mistaken in blaming him;—these are the real foes which I have to fight.” To “break through this barrier of prejudice against me ...
... something must be true, and that it is more likely that one should be to blame, than that many should be mistaken in blaming him;—these are the real foes which I have to fight.” To “break through this barrier of prejudice against me ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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... convinced “that ultimately no general model can contain the specificity of the true self.”21 The history of Afro-American autobiography in its formative century reflects these contrasting views of the self in a creative dialectic.
... convinced “that ultimately no general model can contain the specificity of the true self.”21 The history of Afro-American autobiography in its formative century reflects these contrasting views of the self in a creative dialectic.
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Early black autobiographers seem preoccupied with authenticating their stories and themselves by documenting both according to their fidelity to the facts of human nature and experience that white Americans assumed to be true.
Early black autobiographers seem preoccupied with authenticating their stories and themselves by documenting both according to their fidelity to the facts of human nature and experience that white Americans assumed to be true.
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I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are nevertheless, strictly true.” Having brought up the problem of how a white person could believe in a seemingly “incredible” black narrative, Jacobs blandly ...
I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are nevertheless, strictly true.” Having brought up the problem of how a white person could believe in a seemingly “incredible” black narrative, Jacobs blandly ...
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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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