To tell a free story : the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1760-1865 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Andrews, William L., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1986.
Subjects:
African Americans > Biography.
Autobiography.
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography.
African Americans.
Enslaved persons > United States.
Noirs américains.
Autobiographie.
Esclaves > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Biographies.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Biographies.
autobiography (genre)
African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
African Americans
Autobiography
Enslaved persons
Autobiografie
Schwarze
Slaven (arbeid)
Autobiografieën.
Zwarten.
Slaves > United States > Biography.
Esclavage > Dans la littérature > Biographies.
Noirs > États-Unis > Dans la littérature > Biographies.
autobiographie > littérature afro-américaine > Etats-Unis > 1760 > 1865 > études diverses.
biographie > littérature afro-américaine > Etats-Unis > 1760 > 1865 > études diverses.
esclavage > Etats-Unis > 1760 > 1865 > études diverses.
United States
USA
Schwärze
African Americans > Biography
Slaves > Biography > United States
Biography.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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