Telling our stories : continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies /

Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The selected autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are in turn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alabi, Adetayo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Temas:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Prose américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Black & Asian studies.
Literary theory.
Autobiography: general.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Society.
African Americans > Biography
African Americans in literature
African Americans > Intellectual life
American prose literature > African American authors
Autobiography > African American authors
Autobiografieën.
Amerikaans.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : the autobiographical genre in black societies
  • 2. Theorizing race, theorizing blackness
  • 3. Postcolonial theory and black literatures
  • 4. Caliban, is that you? : slave narratives and the politics of resistance
  • 5. Different, yet related : black creative autobiographers in dialogue
  • 6. Communal resistance and subjectivity : black activists in racialized societies
  • 7. Writing another life : the constructedness of the autobiographical genre.

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