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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... tradition of Afro - American autobiography in the nineteenth century . The acquisition of literacy , the power to read books and discover one's place in the scheme of things , is treated in many slave narratives as a matter equal in ...
... tradition of Afro - American autobiography in the nineteenth century . The acquisition of literacy , the power to read books and discover one's place in the scheme of things , is treated in many slave narratives as a matter equal in ...
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... tradition that Afro - American autobiography " wishes to open " and force the reader " to esteem and estimate differently " ( Bloom's emphasis ) , are the culture - defining scriptures of nineteenth - century America , the Bible and the ...
... tradition that Afro - American autobiography " wishes to open " and force the reader " to esteem and estimate differently " ( Bloom's emphasis ) , are the culture - defining scriptures of nineteenth - century America , the Bible and the ...
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... traditions of early black autobiography , we shall have difficulty in chronicling the evo- lution of the genre in patterns of steady progress . The tradition of black autobiography is not layered in strata of ground - breaking ...
... traditions of early black autobiography , we shall have difficulty in chronicling the evo- lution of the genre in patterns of steady progress . The tradition of black autobiography is not layered in strata of ground - breaking ...
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... tradition to reveal itself as a dialectic of continuity and change , not as simply a function of the parameters of the definition itself . In defining autobiography for the purposes of this book I do not pro- pose to establish an ...
... tradition to reveal itself as a dialectic of continuity and change , not as simply a function of the parameters of the definition itself . In defining autobiography for the purposes of this book I do not pro- pose to establish an ...
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... tradition that black autobiographers had was their sense of the state of black - white discourse on the questions of slavery , black identity , and the capacity of blacks for reliable discourse in the first place . In some ...
... tradition that black autobiographers had was their sense of the state of black - white discourse on the questions of slavery , black identity , and the capacity of blacks for reliable discourse in the first place . In some ...
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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