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

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Auteur principal : Andrews William Leake (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : To tell a free story : the first century of Afro-American autobiography, 1760-1865 / William L. Andrews
Publié : Urbana, Ill. [etc.] : University of Illinois Press , copyright 1986
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii-353 p.)
Sujets :
  • Chapter 1. The first century of Afro-American autobiography: notes toward a definition of a genre
  • Chapter 2. Voices of th first fifty years, 1760-1810
  • Chapter 3. Experiements in two modes, 1810-40
  • Chapter 4. The performance of slave narrative in the 1840s
  • Chapter 5. The uses of Marginality, 1850-65
  • Chapter 6. Culmination of a century: The autobiographies of J.D. Green, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs.