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Andrews describes and analyzes many autobiographies here, but his primary focus is on "slave narratives" by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (a.k.a. Linda Brent), and J. D. Green. He convincingly advances new ideas regarding all three: that Douglass's My Bondage and My Free dom has been misread and vastly underrated for years; that Jacobs's long-scorned Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is in fact poignant, subtle, and important; and that Green's almost totally neglected Narrative is a "ground-breaking, precedent-defying work." Andrews shows how the authors of such works coped with the preconceptions of their white editors and readers. Though pedantic at times (consider such phrases as "ontological distanciation"), Andrews's analysis is gripping and often touching. Peter Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A reading of the origins of Afro-American autobiography unprecedented in its scholarly and critical acumen and depth. By any honest reckoning ... a major achievement in American literary and cultural studies." -- Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes
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Whatever else it is, autobiography stems more often than not from a need to explain and justify the self. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early black autobiography, black spiritual autobiography, black autobiographers, black spiritual autobiographers, numerous reprint editions, early black autobiographies, fictive reader, slave narrator, fugitive slave narrative, black narrator, fugitive blacksmith, appropriateness conditions, declarative act, fugitive negro, second autobiography, slave autobiographies, white reader, autobiographical discourse, black narrative, assertive mode, autobiographical tradition, autobiographical act, slave narratives, criminal confession Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, United States, New York, Henry Bibb, New Bedford, Uncle Tom, Harriet Jacobs, Nat Turner, Louisa Picquet, New Orleans, Josiah Henson, Venture Smith, George White, Samuel Ringgold Ward, American Anti-Slavery Society, Hugh Auld, Fugitive Slave Act, James Gronniosaw, African Methodist, Edward Covey, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Frances, Moses Roper, Patrick Henry New!
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Whatever else it is, autobiography stems more often than not from a need to explain and justify the self. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early black autobiography, black spiritual autobiography, black autobiographers, black spiritual autobiographers, numerous reprint editions, early black autobiographies, fictive reader, slave narrator, fugitive slave narrative, black narrator, fugitive blacksmith, appropriateness conditions, declarative act, fugitive negro, second autobiography, slave autobiographies, white reader, autobiographical discourse, black narrative, assertive mode, autobiographical tradition, autobiographical act, slave narratives, criminal confession Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, United States, New York, Henry Bibb, New Bedford, Uncle Tom, Harriet Jacobs, Nat Turner, Louisa Picquet, New Orleans, Josiah Henson, Venture Smith, George White, Samuel Ringgold Ward, American Anti-Slavery Society, Hugh Auld, Fugitive Slave Act, James Gronniosaw, African Methodist, Edward Covey, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Frances, Moses Roper, Patrick Henry New!
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- The Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews on 25 pages
- Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Deborah M. Garfield on 17 pages
- I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives (The Library of Black America series) by Yuval Taylor on 5 pages
- The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States by Cathy N. Davidson on 5 pages
- African American Lives by Henry Louis Gates Jr. on 5 pages
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