African American Autobiographers
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A History Of African American Autobiography
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Author : Joycelyn Moody
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-22
A History Of African American Autobiography written by Joycelyn Moody and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.
African American Autobiography And The Quest For Freedom
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Author : Roland L. Williams Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-01-30
African American Autobiography And The Quest For Freedom written by Roland L. Williams Jr. and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Slave narratives were one of the earliest forms of African American writing. These works, autobiographical in nature, later fostered other pieces of African American autobiography. Since the rise of Black Studies in the late 1960s, leading critics have constructed black lives and letters as antitheses of the ways and writings of mainstream American culture. According to such thinking, black writing stems from a set of experiences very different from the world of whites, and black autobiography must therefore differ radically from heroic white American tales. But in pointing to differences between black and white autobiographical works, these critics have overlooked the similarities. This volume argues that the African American autobiography is a continuation of the epic tradition, much as the prose narratives of voyage by white Americans in the nineteenth century likewise represent the evolution of the epic genre. The book makes clear that the writers of black autobiography have shared and shaped American culture, and that their works are very much a part of American literature. An introductory essay provides a theoretical framework for the chapters that follow. It discusses the origins of African American autobiography and the larger themes of the epic tradition that are common to the works of both black and white authors. The book then pairs representative African American autobiographies with similar works by white writers. Thus the volume matches Olaudah Equiano's slave narrative with The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave with Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl with Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall. The study indicates that these various works all recognize the importance of learning as a means for attaining freedom. The final chapter provides a broad survey of the African American autobiography.
Race And Form
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Author : Dejin Xu
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Race And Form written by Dejin Xu and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This study presents a contextualized narratology of African American autobiography. The author compares eight autobiographies by seven African American writers from different periods (namely, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks) and focuses on both the issue of race and such formal elements as temporal arrangement, narrative situation, narrative perspective, present tense, commentary, unreliability as well as audience. In addition to proposing a major framework for the narratology of autobiography in the opening chapter, the succeeding practical analyses draw on other approaches, such as stylistics and rhetoric, which complement narratology in the investigation of «how» a story is presented.
Act Like You Know
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Author : Crispin Sartwell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1998-07-20
Act Like You Know written by Crispin Sartwell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest slave narratives to the most contemporary urban raps, have each in their own way gauged and confronted the character of white society." Sartwell analyses these African American writings and gains a unique perspective on and picture of white identity.--Back cover.
American Autobiography
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Author : Paul John Eakin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1991
American Autobiography written by Paul John Eakin and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention. Book jacket.
Reading African American Autobiography
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Author : Eric D. Lamore
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2017-01-10
Reading African American Autobiography written by Eric D. Lamore and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the 1760s to Barack Obama, this collection offers fresh looks at classic African American life narratives; highlights neglected African American lives, texts, and genres; and discusses the diverse outpouring of twenty-first-century memoirs.
Bearing Witness
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Author : Henry Louis Gates
language : en
Publisher: N.Y. : Pantheon Books
Release Date : 1991
Bearing Witness written by Henry Louis Gates and has been published by N.Y. : Pantheon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with African Americans categories.
This collection from the rich literature of African American autobiography documents the experience of being black in America, from slavery to present day, in the words of Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, and forty other contributors. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Autobiography Of A People
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Author : Herb Boyd
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-06-30
Autobiography Of A People written by Herb Boyd and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait: Benjamin Banneker on Thomas Jefferson Old Elizabeth on spreading the Word Frederick Douglass on life in the North W.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented Tenth Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole Harriot Jacobs on running away James Cameron on escaping a mob lyniching Alvin Ailey on the world of dance Langston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance Curtis Morriw on the Korean War Max ROach on "jazz" as a four-letter word LL Cool J on rap Mary Church Terrell on the Chicago World's Fair Rev. Bernice King on the future of Black America And many others.
African American Journalists
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Author : Calvin L. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
African American Journalists written by Calvin L. Hall and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the last decade of the 20th century, during a time when African Americans were starting to take inventory of the gains of the civil rights movement and its effects on the lives of black professionals in the public sphere, the memoirs of several journalists were published, a number of which became national bestsellers. African American Journalists examines select autobiographies written by African American journalists in order to explore the relationship between race, class, gender, and journalism practice. At the heart of this study is the contention that contemporary memoirs written by African American journalists are quasi-political documents_manifestos written in reaction to and against the forces of institutionalized racism in the newsroom. The memoirs featured in this study include Jill Nelson's Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, Jake Lamar's Bourgeois Blues: An American Memoir, and Patricia Raybon's My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love, and Forgiveness. The exploration of these works increases our understanding of the problems that members of other underrepresented groups may face in the workplace.
One Life
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Author : Ellen Holly
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date : 1996
One Life written by Ellen Holly and has been published by Kodansha this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As Carla on One Life to Live, Ellen Holly exploded onto the soap opera scene, playing a mysterious black woman who tried to pass as white. The daring story line provoked as much praise as it did controversy, but it was a different story behind the scenes: racism pervaded the production and, after 17 years, Holly was fired. Now, in a memoir as honest as it is romantic, Holly recounts her fascinating life. of photos.