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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... character of black folk . During the latter half of this century of evolution , the crucial themes of identity and veracity underwent much revision . Instead of defining the self according to traditional cultural models , greater and ...
... character of black folk . During the latter half of this century of evolution , the crucial themes of identity and veracity underwent much revision . Instead of defining the self according to traditional cultural models , greater and ...
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... character at climactic moments in their lives . Ex - slaves who do not hide or apologize for the lingering evidence of the psychopathol- ogy of oppression in their writing present important problems for inter- pretations of the slave ...
... character at climactic moments in their lives . Ex - slaves who do not hide or apologize for the lingering evidence of the psychopathol- ogy of oppression in their writing present important problems for inter- pretations of the slave ...
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... character of the genre : its didactic intent , its treatment of life as representative or allegorical , its unifying sense of calling and vocation , and its stylistic sensitivity to the arts of persuasion . 32 It is also useful to keep ...
... character of the genre : its didactic intent , its treatment of life as representative or allegorical , its unifying sense of calling and vocation , and its stylistic sensitivity to the arts of persuasion . 32 It is also useful to keep ...
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... character needed to earn the audi- ence's good will , " he points to another rhetorical feature of black autobi- ography in its first century of development . I will comment on the psy- chological import of character " signs " in black ...
... character needed to earn the audi- ence's good will , " he points to another rhetorical feature of black autobi- ography in its first century of development . I will comment on the psy- chological import of character " signs " in black ...
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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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