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Title Reading African American autobiography : twenty-first-century contexts and criticism / edited by Eric D. Lamore
Published Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (294 pages)
Series Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Contents Introduction: African American autobiography in the "age of Obama" / Eric D. Lamore -- "A dying man": the outlaw body of Arthur, 1768 / Lynn A. Casmier-Paz -- Early black men's spiritual autobiography: marriage and violence / Joycelyn K. Moody -- Olaudah Equiano in the United States: Abigail Mott's 1829 abridged edition of the Interesting Narrative / Eric D. Lamore -- The visual properties of black autobiography: the case of William J. Edwards / Anthony S. Foy -- Richard Wright's environments: mediating personhood through the South's second nature / Susan Scott Parrish -- "A space of concentration": the autobiographical comics of Richard "Grass" Green and Samuel R. Delany / Brian Cremins -- Born into this body: black women's use of Buddhism in autobiographical narratives / Tracy Curtis -- From blog to books: Angela Nissel, authorship, and the digital public sphere / Linda Furgerson Selzer -- Grafted belongings: identification in autobiographical narratives of African American transracial adoptees / Marina Fedosik -- Reading signs of crazy: Pam Grier, a black feminist in praxis / Kwakiutl L. Dreher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Autobiography -- African American authors -- History and criticism
African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism
African Americans -- Biography
Autobiography -- African American authors
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Lamore, Eric D., editor.
LC no. 2016012950
ISBN 9780299309831
0299309835