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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... seems to require it. Other things being equal, the freer a people, the more truthful; and only the perfectly free and fearless are perfectly truthful.”7 In this observation Howe tried to suggest that absolute “perfect” truth, a concept ...
... seems to require it. Other things being equal, the freer a people, the more truthful; and only the perfectly free and fearless are perfectly truthful.”7 In this observation Howe tried to suggest that absolute “perfect” truth, a concept ...
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... seems to require it . Other things being equal , the freer a people , the more truthful ; and only the perfectly free and fearless are perfectly truthful . ” ” In this observation Howe tried to suggest that absolute " perfect " truth ...
... seems to require it . Other things being equal , the freer a people , the more truthful ; and only the perfectly free and fearless are perfectly truthful . ” ” In this observation Howe tried to suggest that absolute " perfect " truth ...
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... seems a helpful kind of general description , though fraught with definitional difficulties that must be faced.27 The problem of the historicity of early Afro - American autobiography , and in particular the slave narrative , has been ...
... seems a helpful kind of general description , though fraught with definitional difficulties that must be faced.27 The problem of the historicity of early Afro - American autobiography , and in particular the slave narrative , has been ...
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... seems very likely when we remember that analysis of the Works Progress Administration interviews with ex - slaves in the 1930s suggests that blacks often told their white interviewers what they seemed to want to hear . If it was ...
... seems very likely when we remember that analysis of the Works Progress Administration interviews with ex - slaves in the 1930s suggests that blacks often told their white interviewers what they seemed to want to hear . If it was ...
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... seem to have governed their literary char- acter and function.47 Problems of origin , composition , editing , and control of manuscript complicate the study of early Afro - American autobiography and limit the conclusiveness of ...
... seem to have governed their literary char- acter and function.47 Problems of origin , composition , editing , and control of manuscript complicate the study of early Afro - American autobiography and limit the conclusiveness 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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