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Title:

Reading African American autobiography : twenty-first-century contexts and criticism / edited by Eric D. Lamore.

Publisher:

The University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Autobiography--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African Americans--Biography.
Autobiography--African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Lamore, Eric D., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

ISBN:

0299309800 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780299309800 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946725758

LCCN:

2016012950

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)