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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... black autobiographers to invent devices and strategies that would endow ... autobiography since the demands of truthfulness and selfpreservation were ... autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect freedom and imperfect truth ...
... black autobiographers to invent devices and strategies that would endow ... autobiography since the demands of truthfulness and selfpreservation were ... autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect freedom and imperfect truth ...
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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. Preface The thesis of this book , simply put , is this : the import of the autobiogra- phies of black people during the first century of the genre's ...
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. Preface The thesis of this book , simply put , is this : the import of the autobiogra- phies of black people during the first century of the genre's ...
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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. as conceived by the predominant ... black auto- biographical personae had been . Instead of appealing to the reader's moral values and literary expectations ...
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. as conceived by the predominant ... black auto- biographical personae had been . Instead of appealing to the reader's moral values and literary expectations ...
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... black narrator who could not see his way clear to " live in the light of truth . " Today our sensitivity to the relativistic truth value of all autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect ... Afro - American Autobiography.
... black narrator who could not see his way clear to " live in the light of truth . " Today our sensitivity to the relativistic truth value of all autobiography and to the peculiar symbiosis of imperfect ... Afro - American Autobiography.
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... black autobiography in the first century of its existence , whether produced by an ex - slave or not . Afro - American lit- erature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is domi- nated by ... Afro - American Autobiography.
... black autobiography in the first century of its existence , whether produced by an ex - slave or not . Afro - American lit- erature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is domi- nated by ... Afro - American Autobiography.
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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