To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865University of Illinois Press, 1 juin 1986 - 353 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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... Brown attributes to himself in the act of reconstruct- ing his past . Like Brown , the reader has been robbed of the information he wants to know . Parodying conventional white practice of keeping fam- ily histories in family Bibles ...
... Brown attributes to himself in the act of reconstruct- ing his past . Like Brown , the reader has been robbed of the information he wants to know . Parodying conventional white practice of keeping fam- ily histories in family Bibles ...
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... Brown , a man of mixed blood whose name sym- bolizes , as we have noted , an amalgamation of the best influences of the black matriarchy in the South and the white patriarchy in the North . Brown depicts himself as ever loyal to this ...
... Brown , a man of mixed blood whose name sym- bolizes , as we have noted , an amalgamation of the best influences of the black matriarchy in the South and the white patriarchy in the North . Brown depicts himself as ever loyal to this ...
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... Brown's loosely con- nected narrative , composed primarily of sight - seeing letters and sketches , pictures the black exile very much at home in Europe , where caste and color are not determinants of personal worth or success . Intent ...
... Brown's loosely con- nected narrative , composed primarily of sight - seeing letters and sketches , pictures the black exile very much at home in Europe , where caste and color are not determinants of personal worth or success . Intent ...
Table des matières
Voices of the First Fifty Years 17601810 | 32 |
Experiments in Two Modes 181040 | 61 |
The Performance of Slave Narrative in the 1840s | 97 |
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