Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 353 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780252054631
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0252054636
Content:
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, Briton Hammon, Josiah Henson, Harriet Jacobs, John Jea, Lunsford Lane, Jarena Lee, John Marrant, Solomon Northrup, James W. Pennington, James Robert, Moses Roper, Venture Smith, Austin Steward, Nat Turner, Samuel R. Ward, Booker T. Washington, James Watkins, George White, James Williams, and others
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-347) and index
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0252012224
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252012228
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0252060334
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252060335
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Andrews, William L., 1946- To tell a free story Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1986
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biography
Author information:
Andrews, William L. 1946-
