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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... rhetorical mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other than those already occupied by pro- and antislavery polemics . " Argument provokes argument , " the editor of the Boston Chronotype concluded ...
... rhetorical mode that would conduct the battle against racism and slavery on grounds other than those already occupied by pro- and antislavery polemics . " Argument provokes argument , " the editor of the Boston Chronotype concluded ...
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... rhetorical risk , made much of their despair and unassuaged outrage , their transgressions of Christian morality , and their unheroic behavior . Nor did these narrators always apologize for these breaches or use them as pretexts for ...
... rhetorical risk , made much of their despair and unassuaged outrage , their transgressions of Christian morality , and their unheroic behavior . Nor did these narrators always apologize for these breaches or use them as pretexts for ...
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... rhetorical ploy , looking back to ancient judi- cial oratory in which such self - effacing talk was intended to dispose judges favorably . " The black autobiographer was similarly on trial and thus proposed , as a rule , to concentrate ...
... rhetorical ploy , looking back to ancient judi- cial oratory in which such self - effacing talk was intended to dispose judges favorably . " The black autobiographer was similarly on trial and thus proposed , as a rule , to concentrate ...
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... rhetorical art , whether acknowl- edged or not . The structuring of one's experience in story form requires that one judge certain facts of one's life to be reportable , that is , signifi- cant beyond their merely factual content ...
... rhetorical art , whether acknowl- edged or not . The structuring of one's experience in story form requires that one judge certain facts of one's life to be reportable , that is , signifi- cant beyond their merely factual content ...
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... rhetorical aims as hindrances to the understanding of reality rather than as ways of apprehending it . But we must remember that in any slave nar- rative , no matter how verifiable in its particulars , 16 To Tell a Free Story.
... rhetorical aims as hindrances to the understanding of reality rather than as ways of apprehending it . But we must remember that in any slave nar- rative , no matter how verifiable in its particulars , 16 To Tell a Free Story.
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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