To tell a free story : the first century of Arto-American autobiography, 1760-1865
Print Book, English, ©1986
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, ©1986
Biographies
xiii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780252060335, 0252060334
1149095732
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrefaceChapter 1. The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography: Notes toward a Definition of a GenreChapter 2. Voices of the First Fifty Years, 1760-1810Chapter 3. Experiments in Two Modes, 1810-40Chapter 4. The Performance of Slave Narrative in the 1840sChapter 5. The Uses of Marginality, 1850-65Chapter 6. Culmination of a Century: The Autobiographies of J.D. Green, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet JacobsConclusion. "Free at Last": From Discourse to Dialogue in the Novelized AutobiographyNotesAnnotated Bibliography of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865Annotated Bibliography of Afro-American Biography, 1760-1865IndexBack Cover