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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... questions proliferate upon reading a typical black crimi- nal confession . Drawn up according to the formula of the time , these ac- counts never answer satisfactorily the question of why a slave ran away or why a black man became a ...
... questions proliferate upon reading a typical black crimi- nal confession . Drawn up according to the formula of the time , these ac- counts never answer satisfactorily the question of why a slave ran away or why a black man became a ...
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... question Davis's formalist prescriptions for art , it is hard to disagree with him that Roper's narrative is in certain respects an alienating text . Regardless of our estimate of the book as a factual exposé of slavery , the reading of ...
... question Davis's formalist prescriptions for art , it is hard to disagree with him that Roper's narrative is in certain respects an alienating text . Regardless of our estimate of the book as a factual exposé of slavery , the reading of ...
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... questions , to effect his escape ? ” ( 163 ) . Anyone familiar with the myth- ology of Indian captivity narratives ... question : " who would not do the same thing to rescue a wife , child , father , or mother ? " He had mar- ried and ...
... questions , to effect his escape ? ” ( 163 ) . Anyone familiar with the myth- ology of Indian captivity narratives ... question : " who would not do the same thing to rescue a wife , child , father , or mother ? " He had mar- ried and ...
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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 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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