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Author Alabi, Adetayo, author

Title Telling our stories : continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies / by Adetayo Alabi
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 185 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction : the autobiographical genre in black societies -- 2. Theorizing race, theorizing blackness -- 3. Postcolonial theory and black literatures -- 4. Caliban, is that you? : slave narratives and the politics of resistance -- 5. Different, yet related : black creative autobiographers in dialogue -- 6. Communal resistance and subjectivity : black activists in racialized societies -- 7. Writing another life : the constructedness of the autobiographical genre
Summary Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The selected autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are in turn products of specific societies at specific periods and as interconnected books. The book pays particular attention to the various societies that produce the autobiographies directly to identify influences of environmental and cultural differences on the texts. To foreground the network these autobiographies form, on the other hand, the study adopts cross-cultural and postcolonial reading approaches to examine the continuities and divergences in them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism
Autobiography -- African American authors.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Black & Asian studies.
Literary theory.
Autobiography: general.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Society.
African Americans -- Biography
African Americans in literature
African Americans -- Intellectual life
American prose literature -- African American authors
Autobiography -- African American authors
Autobiografieën.
Amerikaans.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781403980946
1403980942
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9786611368968
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