African American journalists : autobiography as memoir and manifesto /

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In the last decade of the 20th century, during a time when African Americans were starting to take inventory of the gains of the civil rights movement and its effects on the lives of black professionals in the public sphere, the memoirs of several journalists were published, a number of which became...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Calvin L., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Temas:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American authors > Biography > History and criticism.
African American journalists > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African American authors > Intellectual life.
Prose américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains noirs américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Journalistes noirs américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
African American authors > Biography
American prose literature > African American authors
Autobiography > African American authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "unexamined lives" : the study of African American journalism autobiography
  • Journalism : memory, history, and context
  • Form, function, and the public sphere in Jill Nelson's Volunteer slavery
  • Volunteer slavery and the speech aspects of the autobiographical manifesto
  • Surveillance and performance in Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler
  • Jake Lamar, Patricia Raybon, and the autobiographical manifesto form
  • Memoir and the African American newsroom experience : themes and considerations
  • Conclusion: the synergy between race, class, gender, and profession in African American journalists' autobiographies.

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