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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... literary ineptitude . Their modest prefaces and apologies for their poverty of ex- pression were a traditional rhetorical ploy , looking back to ancient judi- cial oratory in which such self - effacing talk was intended to dispose ...
... literary ineptitude . Their modest prefaces and apologies for their poverty of ex- pression were a traditional rhetorical ploy , looking back to ancient judi- cial oratory in which such self - effacing talk was intended to dispose ...
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... literary silences similar to those that Tillie Olsen ascribes to an “ unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being , but cannot . " " A similar sense of frustration may have led other narrators to translate the pattern of ...
... literary silences similar to those that Tillie Olsen ascribes to an “ unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being , but cannot . " " A similar sense of frustration may have led other narrators to translate the pattern of ...
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... literary discourse as espoused by the classic nineteenth - century American Ro- mantics . Eschewing the limitations of logical analogy , black and white I - narrators of the American renaissance used metaphors whose " emer- gent meaning ...
... literary discourse as espoused by the classic nineteenth - century American Ro- mantics . Eschewing the limitations of logical analogy , black and white I - narrators of the American renaissance used metaphors whose " emer- gent meaning ...
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... literary and self - creation , of " revisionary replacements " of scriptural ideas of the self with " a word one's own that is also one's act and one's veritable presence . " 23 Thus as black autobiography necessarily establishes its ...
... literary and self - creation , of " revisionary replacements " of scriptural ideas of the self with " a word one's own that is also one's act and one's veritable presence . " 23 Thus as black autobiography necessarily establishes its ...
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... , can one address what Hayden White has termed " the problem of change in literary history " as it is manifested in the first century of Afro - American autobiography ? 26 To do this , 15 The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
... , can one address what Hayden White has termed " the problem of change in literary history " as it is manifested in the first century of Afro - American autobiography ? 26 To do this , 15 The First Century of Afro - American Autobiography.
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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