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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... writing on this book. A preliminary version of Chapter 1 of this book was published as “The First Century of AfroAmerican Autobiography: Theory and Explication,” in Joe Weixlmann and Chester J. Fontenot, eds., Black American Prose ...
... writing on this book. A preliminary version of Chapter 1 of this book was published as “The First Century of AfroAmerican Autobiography: Theory and Explication,” in Joe Weixlmann and Chester J. Fontenot, eds., Black American Prose ...
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... writing life stories that would somehow prove that they qualified as the moral, spiritual, or intellectual peers of ... writers and their white audience. Nevertheless, there does exist a partial and instructive analogy to the way the ...
... writing life stories that would somehow prove that they qualified as the moral, spiritual, or intellectual peers of ... writers and their white audience. Nevertheless, there does exist a partial and instructive analogy to the way the ...
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... writing of autobiography as in some ways uniquely self - liberating , the final , cli- mactic act in the drama of their lifelong quests for freedom . Such narra- tives provide important insights into the kinds of freedom their writers ...
... writing of autobiography as in some ways uniquely self - liberating , the final , cli- mactic act in the drama of their lifelong quests for freedom . Such narra- tives provide important insights into the kinds of freedom their writers ...
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... writing , a wise and diplomatic critic , and a constant stimulant to my creativity ( such as it is ) in this book . Without his unflagging contribution , early on , to the process by which this book has taken shape , To Tell a Free ...
... writing , a wise and diplomatic critic , and a constant stimulant to my creativity ( such as it is ) in this book . Without his unflagging contribution , early on , to the process by which this book has taken shape , To Tell a Free ...
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... writing came to be judged according to the per- sonal standards of some narrative " other . " This other was a good ... writer , first or last , a simple and sincere account of his own life . " Thoreau did not bother to explain how one ...
... writing came to be judged according to the per- sonal standards of some narrative " other . " This other was a good ... writer , first or last , a simple and sincere account of his own life . " Thoreau did not bother to explain how one ...
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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