Can cups be books? or, other ways to recognize African American autobiography / Frances Smith Foster. Black life writing and print culture before 1800 / Rhondda Robinson Thomas -- Reading the edited "I" in the early Black Atlantic / Eric D. Lamore -- Caste and class in the antebellum slave narrative / William L. Andrews -- Nineteenth-century autobiographical writings by freeborn African Americans / John Ernest -- African American life writing, 1865-1900 / Andreá N. Williams -- Black life writing in print cultures at the turn into the twentieth century / Lois Brown -- New Negro autobiographies / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson -- Transnational and postcolonial Afro-Caribbean life writing / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Writing race and remembrance in the Civil Rights Movement years / Brian J. Norman -- The biomedicalization of Black life narratives / Moya Bailey and Whitney Peoples -- Spiritual autobiography, past and present / Cedrick May -- Life writings of contemporary African American women / Barbara McCaskill -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as a transitional Black arts text / James Smethurst -- Black queer life writing / Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman -- African American celebrity auto/biographies / Anthony S. Foy -- Mixed-race autobiographical narratives / Caroline Streeter -- Black biography, past and present / Tara T. Green -- Black lives in contemporary persona poems / Howard Rambsy II -- Depicting African American life in graphics and visual cultures / Michael A. Chaney -- Life writing for Black children and youth / Giselle Liza Anatol -- Black life writing for young readers / Jonda C. McNair -- Can cups be books? or, other ways to recognize African American autobiography / Frances Smith Foster.
Summary:
"This history explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.