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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... narrator achieve credence by objectifying himself and passivizing his voice . The unity of black autobiography in the antebellum era is most appar- ent in the pervasive use of journey or quest motifs that symbolize mul- tiple layers of ...
... narrator achieve credence by objectifying himself and passivizing his voice . The unity of black autobiography in the antebellum era is most appar- ent in the pervasive use of journey or quest motifs that symbolize mul- tiple layers of ...
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... narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery , or a lapse in his prepossessing self - image , we must pay special attention . These deviations may indicate either a momentary loss of narrative control or a deliberate effort by ...
... narrator's objective reportage of the facts of slavery , or a lapse in his prepossessing self - image , we must pay special attention . These deviations may indicate either a momentary loss of narrative control or a deliberate effort by ...
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... narrators doubted their white readers ' ability to translate the words necessary to a full ren- dering of their ... narrator to pose as an artless and unaffected person whose simple narrative manner bore the conviction of truth that ...
... narrators doubted their white readers ' ability to translate the words necessary to a full ren- dering of their ... narrator to pose as an artless and unaffected person whose simple narrative manner bore the conviction of truth that ...
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... narrator judged its reportability . If we can learn to find these evaluators in even the barest recitations of ... narrators to translate the pattern of their lives into the myths and images of the predominant culture's traditions ...
... narrator judged its reportability . If we can learn to find these evaluators in even the barest recitations of ... narrators to translate the pattern of their lives into the myths and images of the predominant culture's traditions ...
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... narrator , by simply ignoring the superficial difference of skin color that separates subject and modifier . There is a spiritual identity between Mr. Christian and the narrator as pilgrims that makes it possible to accept the one as an ...
... narrator , by simply ignoring the superficial difference of skin color that separates subject and modifier . There is a spiritual identity between Mr. Christian and the narrator as pilgrims that makes it possible to accept the one as an ...
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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