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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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. of the past , no longer responds as readily to the mechanisms of repres sion . The danger for these black self ... Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. of the past , no longer responds as readily to the mechanisms of repres sion . The danger for these black self ... Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
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... century , some nar- rators set out on intellectual quests for tropes through which they could embody in most provocative ways the previously unreportable in collec- tive Afro - American experience . What could not be reported explicitly ...
... century , some nar- rators set out on intellectual quests for tropes through which they could embody in most provocative ways the previously unreportable in collec- tive Afro - American experience . What could not be reported explicitly ...
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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. made when a word undergoes a turn or " twist " in its literal meaning oc- casioned by some sort of " semantic clash ... Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. made when a word undergoes a turn or " twist " in its literal meaning oc- casioned by some sort of " semantic clash ... Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
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... century 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 ...
... century 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 ...
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The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. Afro - American autobiography ? 26 To ... century positivist history , disclaiming fictive techniques or rhetorical aims as hindrances to the understanding of ...
The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 William L. Andrews. Afro - American autobiography ? 26 To ... century positivist history , disclaiming fictive techniques or rhetorical aims as hindrances to the understanding 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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