To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865To 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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Contents Preface xi Chapter 1 . The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography : Notes toward a Definition of a Genre 1 Chapter 2. Voices of the First Fifty Years , 1760–1810 Chapter 3. Experiments in Two Modes , 1810-40 Chapter 4.
Contents Preface xi Chapter 1 . The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography : Notes toward a Definition of a Genre 1 Chapter 2. Voices of the First Fifty Years , 1760–1810 Chapter 3. Experiments in Two Modes , 1810-40 Chapter 4.
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This process begins in the first chapter of the book as Equiano lovingly reminisces about the Ibos ' way of life . The simplicity of their manners and institutions , the justice of their moral values , and the harmony of their society ...
This process begins in the first chapter of the book as Equiano lovingly reminisces about the Ibos ' way of life . The simplicity of their manners and institutions , the justice of their moral values , and the harmony of their society ...
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20–29 . 57. Iser , Act of Reading , pp . 61–72 . 58. For an insightful look at authentication in four major antebellum slave nar- ratives , see the first chapter of Robert B. Stepto's From behind the Veil ...
20–29 . 57. Iser , Act of Reading , pp . 61–72 . 58. For an insightful look at authentication in four major antebellum slave nar- ratives , see the first chapter of Robert B. Stepto's From behind the Veil ...
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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 |
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| Titre | To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 |
| Auteur | William L. Andrews |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | University of Illinois Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0252012224, 9780252012228 |
| Longueur | 353 pages |
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