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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... Gronniosaw's nar- rative characterizes the former slave as one whose " call was very extraor- dinary " and whose " deliverance " came because " his faith did not fail him . ” Having indirectly prepared the reader to interpret Gronniosaw's ...
... Gronniosaw's nar- rative characterizes the former slave as one whose " call was very extraor- dinary " and whose " deliverance " came because " his faith did not fail him . ” Having indirectly prepared the reader to interpret Gronniosaw's ...
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... Gronniosaw is profoundly thankful . The providential removal of his earthly master , emancipating the young slave , only makes Gronniosaw feel “ distressed . ” He speaks of freedom as a bless- ing solely in spiritual terms . The death ...
... Gronniosaw is profoundly thankful . The providential removal of his earthly master , emancipating the young slave , only makes Gronniosaw feel “ distressed . ” He speaks of freedom as a bless- ing solely in spiritual terms . The death ...
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... Gronniosaw's narrative similarly identifies the protagonist of this story as the object , not the subject , of the action : " I will bring the blind by a way that they know not ; I will lead them in paths that they have not known ; I ...
... Gronniosaw's narrative similarly identifies the protagonist of this story as the object , not the subject , of the action : " I will bring the blind by a way that they know not ; I will lead them in paths that they have not known ; I ...
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 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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