To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865University of Illinois Press, 17 oct. 2022 - 368 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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... American's spiritual birthright , the fugitive slave narrative could not have made such a cogent case for black civil rights in the crisis years between 1830 and 1865 . In a number of important black autobiographies of this era ...
... American's spiritual birthright , the fugitive slave narrative could not have made such a cogent case for black civil rights in the crisis years between 1830 and 1865 . In a number of important black autobiographies of this era ...
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... unaffected person whose simple narrative manner bore the conviction of truth that white Protestants in America had traditionally in- vested in the plain style . Nevertheless , even the 9 The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
... unaffected person whose simple narrative manner bore the conviction of truth that white Protestants in America had traditionally in- vested in the plain style . Nevertheless , even the 9 The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
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... American Ro- mantics . Eschewing the limitations of logical analogy , black and white I - narrators of the American renaissance used metaphors whose " emer- gent meaning " was not just a function of preexistent similarities between a ...
... American Ro- mantics . Eschewing the limitations of logical analogy , black and white I - narrators of the American renaissance used metaphors whose " emer- gent meaning " was not just a function of preexistent similarities between a ...
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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. writers who are convinced " that ultimately no general model can contain the specificity of the true self . " " The history of Afro - American autobiog ...
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. writers who are convinced " that ultimately no general model can contain the specificity of the true self . " " The history of Afro - American autobiog ...
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... America , the Bible and the Declaration of Independence . The misreading of these texts in Afro - American autobiography is much more than an act of cultural commentary or moral criticism . It is often a fundamental part of the act of ...
... America , the Bible and the Declaration of Independence . The misreading of these texts in Afro - American autobiography is much more than an act of cultural commentary or moral criticism . It is often a fundamental part of the act of ...
Table des matières
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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 |
The Uses of Marginality 185065 | 167 |
Culmination of a Century The Autobiographies of J D Green Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs | 205 |
Free at Last From Discourse to Dialogue in the Novelized Autobiography | 265 |
Notes | 293 |
Annotated Bibliography of AfroAmerican Autobiography 17601865 | 333 |
Annotated Bibliography of AfroAmerican Biography 17601865 | 343 |
Index | 349 |
Note on the Author | |
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