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''[A] crucial, pioneering book . . . deeply engaging because of the intrinsic interest of the texts Stover brings to light.''--Jerrilyn McGregory, Florida State University Johnnie M. Stover explores the origin and power of black women writers' voices using the personal narratives of 19th-century Americans who were slaves or indentured servants.
American prose literature --- African American women in literature. --- African American women --- Women and literature --- Autobiography --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Women authors. --- African American authors. --- Intellectual life. --- Afro-American authors
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Wallach (Georgia College and State Univ.) provides a fascinating look at literary memoirs that deal with US racism against African Americans. She rightly notes that historians have been loathe to accept memoirs as historical documents, since the genre is by nature subjective. However, she persuasively demonstrates that memoirs (as representative of "emotive inquiry") are indeed valuable primary documents, when analyzed properly. Wallach examines both black memoirists (Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates Jr.) and white memoirists (Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, and William Alexander Percy), investigating each independently and comparatively. The insights from her explications are remarkable, derived particularly through her use of theoretical and historiographical material. By maintaining that literary (as opposed to nonliterary) memoirs provide the deepest historical understanding expressly because literary critics can apply their disciplinary tools to mine the material, Wallach will undoubtedly provoke a lively debate over the comparable utility of other kinds of memoirs, such as popular, vernacular, or ethnographic. Likewise contentious may be her focus on southern rather than broadly US racism. J.B. Wolford University of Missouri--St. Louis distributed by Syndetics.
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Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African Americans in the position of speaking from personal experience? In Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America, Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories such as 'colored', 'Negro', 'black' or 'African American' in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and bell hooks. Mostern shows how these autobiographical narratives attempt to construct and transform the political meanings of blackness. The relationship between a black masculine identity that emerged during the 1960s, and the counter-movement of black feminism since the 1970s, is also discussed. This wide-ranging study will interest all those working in African American studies, cultural studies and literary theory.
African Americans --- Autobiography --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Negritude --- Race identity. --- Politics and government. --- Political aspects --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Ethnic identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Identity politics --- African American authors. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Politics of identity --- Political participation --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Afro-American authors --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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Examining autobiographical texts by Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X), Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People), Amiri Baraka (The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones), and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown), Walker questions the often rosy views and simplistic binary conceptions of religious conversion. Her reading of these texts takes into account the conflict and serial changes the authors experience in a society that marginalizes them, the manne
Religion and literature --- Self-realization in literature. --- Conversion in literature. --- Autobiography --- American prose literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- American literature --- History --- Mexican American authors. --- African American authors. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Moral and religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Afro-American authors
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In this book Calvin L. Hall examines select autobiographies written by African American journalists_Jill Nelson's Volunteer Slavery, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler, Jake Lamar's Bourgeois Blues, and Patricia Raybon's My First White Friend_in order to explore the relationship between race, class, gender, and journalism practice.
American prose literature --- African American authors --- African American journalists --- Autobiography --- Afro-American authors --- Authors, African American --- Negro authors --- Authors, American --- Afro-American journalists --- Journalists, African American --- Negro journalists --- Journalists --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- History and criticism. --- African American authors. --- Intellectual life.
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In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important. In the rush to mend fences after the Civil War, the memory of the past faded and turned romantic--slaves became quaint, owners kindly, and the war itself a noble struggle for the Union. Jeffrey examines the autobiographical writings of former abolitionists such as Laura Havilan
Abolitionists --- African American abolitionists --- Fugitive slaves --- Autobiography. --- Autobiography --- Slaves --- Antislavery movements --- African Americans --- Memory --- African American authors. --- Emancipation --- History --- Civil rights --- Social aspects --- United States --- Causes. --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Retention (Psychology) --- Slavery --- Afro-American authors --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Biography as a literary form --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Enslaved persons
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Autobiography --- African American feminists --- African American women authors --- African American women --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Feminists, African American --- Feminists --- Afro-American women authors --- Women authors, African American --- Women authors, American --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Women authors. --- African American authors. --- Biography. --- Biography --- Political aspects. --- Afro-American authors --- Davis, Eisa. --- Danticat, Edwidge, --- Jordan, June, --- McNatt, Rosemary Bray. --- Beals, Melba.
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Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives ""bear witness"" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to ""tell the truth"" about slavery?. Impossible Witnesses explores these questions through a study of fiction, poetry, essays, and slave narratives from the abolitionist era. Linking the racialized discourses
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African American aesthetics --- African Americans in literature --- African Americans --- American prose literature --- Autobiography --- Jazz in literature --- Jazz --- Music and literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Aesthetics, African American --- Afro-American aesthetics --- Aesthetics, American --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Intellectual life --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- African American authors --- History --- Afro-American authors --- Music --- Fiction --- Jazz in literature. --- African American aesthetics. --- African Americans in literature. --- History and criticism. --- African American authors. --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)
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According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.
American prose literature --- Women and literature --- African American women --- African American women in the professions --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Autobiography --- African American women in literature. --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Afro-American women in literature --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Afro-American women in the professions --- Professions --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Intellectual life --- History. --- Employment --- African American authors. --- Women authors. --- Afro-American authors --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)
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