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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... slavery . Other blacks lamented the inadequacy of language it- self to represent the horrors of slavery or the depth of their feelings as they reflected on their suffering . In some cases black narrators doubted their white readers ...
... slavery . Other blacks lamented the inadequacy of language it- self to represent the horrors of slavery or the depth of their feelings as they reflected on their suffering . In some cases black narrators doubted their white readers ...
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... slavery , not the ineffable bliss of salvation , had become the text of most black autobiography . " Reader , " Bibb wrote , “ believe me when I say , that no tongue , nor pen ever has or can express the horrors of American slavery ...
... slavery , not the ineffable bliss of salvation , had become the text of most black autobiography . " Reader , " Bibb wrote , “ believe me when I say , that no tongue , nor pen ever has or can express the horrors of American slavery ...
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... slaves ! How vividly , at that moment , did the brutalizing power of slavery flash be- fore me ! Personality swallowed up in the sordid idea of property ! Manhood lost in chattelhood ! This was the slave narrative's contribution to a ...
... slaves ! How vividly , at that moment , did the brutalizing power of slavery flash be- fore me ! Personality swallowed up in the sordid idea of property ! Manhood lost in chattelhood ! This was the slave narrative's contribution to a ...
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... slavery regarded slave narratives as merely an arm of abolitionist propaganda , strong in righteous indignation but weak in factual substance . In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery ...
... slavery regarded slave narratives as merely an arm of abolitionist propaganda , strong in righteous indignation but weak in factual substance . In the 1960s and 1970s scholars like Eugene Genovese and John W. Blassingame denied that slavery ...
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... slavery and a mass refusal to see blacks as fully human or hear them as truth - tellers , black autobiographers naturally realized that theirs was a rhetorical situation . They could not think of their task simply as the objective ...
... slavery and a mass refusal to see blacks as fully human or hear them as truth - tellers , black autobiographers naturally realized that theirs was a rhetorical situation . They could not think of their task simply as the objective ...
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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