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To Tell a Free Story : The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 /

The author discusses the writings of Richard Allen, Solomon Bayley, Henry Bibb, Henry Box Brown, John Brown, Leonard Black, William Wells Brown, Lewis Clarke, William Craft, Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany, Olaudah Equiano, Moses Grandy, Jacob D. Green, William Grimes, James A.U. Gronniosaw, Br...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Andrews, William L., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The first century of Afro-American autobiography : notes toward a definition of a genre
  • Voices of the first fifty years, 1760-1810
  • Experiments in two modes, 1810-40
  • The performance of slave narrative in the 1840s
  • The uses of marginality, 1850-65
  • Culmination of a century : the autobiographies of J.D. Green, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs
  • "Free at last" : from discourse to dialogue in the novelized autobiography.