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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Thus at the end of his story Lane seems to dismiss as simply role - playing anything in his past other than the image with which he wished to leave his reader . This image is that of the persevering freeman , in the South and North ...
Thus at the end of his story Lane seems to dismiss as simply role - playing anything in his past other than the image with which he wished to leave his reader . This image is that of the persevering freeman , in the South and North ...
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Nevertheless , for every narrator who seems to ... like Wells Brown or David Ruggles ( whom Douglass honored in the 1845 Narrative ) , who seem untainted by racism and provide an ideal by which the white reader might measure himself .
Nevertheless , for every narrator who seems to ... like Wells Brown or David Ruggles ( whom Douglass honored in the 1845 Narrative ) , who seem untainted by racism and provide an ideal by which the white reader might measure himself .
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At this point , when her prospects seem the dimmest since her flight from Flint , Jacobs is rescued by the first manifestation of a liberating female community in the slavery - ridden South . Grandmother Martha , whose friendly ...
At this point , when her prospects seem the dimmest since her flight from Flint , Jacobs is rescued by the first manifestation of a liberating female community in the slavery - ridden South . Grandmother Martha , whose friendly ...
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To tell a free story: the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1769-1865
Avis d'utilisateur - Not Available - Book VerdictAndrews describes and analyzes many autobiographies here, but his primary focus is on "slave narratives'' by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (a.k.a. Linda Brent), and J. D. Green. He convincingly ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Voices of the First Fifty Years 17601810 | 32 |
Experiments in Two Modes 181040 | 61 |
Green Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs | 205 |
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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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