Telling our stories [electronic resource] : continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies / by Adetayo Alabi.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: x, 185 pSubject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/492009296073 LOC classification: PS366.A35 | A44 2005Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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