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Title:

African American autobiography : a collection of critical essays / edited by William L. Andrews.

Publisher:

Prentice Hall,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

viii, 231 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Afro-American authors--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Afro-Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Autobiography

Other Authors:

Andrews, William L., 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-231).

Contents:

James Gronniosaw and the trope of the Talking book / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Narration, authentication, and authorial control in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of 1845 / Robert B. Stepto -- In the first place : making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American narrative tradition / Deborah E. McDowell -- "Hear my voice, ye careless daughters" : narratives of slave and free women before emancipation / Hazel V. Carby -- The representation of slavery and the rise of Afro-American literary realism, 1865-1920 / William L. Andrews -- Crusader for justice : Ida B. Wells / Joanne M. Braxton -- Autoethnography : the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road / Françoise Lionnet -- From experience to eloquence : Richard Wright's Black boy as art / Charles T. Davis -- Malcolm X and the limits of autobiography / Paul John Eakin -- Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings and Black autobiographical tradition / George E. Kent -- After Black boy and Dusk of dawn : patterns in recent Black autobiography / Albert E. Stone -- West Indian autobiography / Sandra Pouchet Paquet --
The value of autobiography for comparative studies : African vs. western autobiograhy / James Olney.

Series:

New century views

ISBN:

9780130198457
0130198455

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25915597

LCCN:

92018226

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Ankeny Campus Library-Des Moines Area Community College (Ankeny)

OIAX792 -- Burling Library (Grinnell College) (Grinnell)     ** Lending Suspended

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)