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To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865
To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of black America's most innovative literary tradition--the autobiography--from its beginnings to the end of the slavery era.
Paperback
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368 pages
Published
May 1st 1988
by University of Illinois Press
(first published 1986)
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Nov 24, 2011
Shanae
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William Andrews's
To Tell a Free Story
is the perfect book for students studying what some consider the beginnings of African American literature - the African American autobiography. The book is well-written and provided the perfect analysis of literature I needed to get through a graduate course on African American autobiography. Nonetheless, I totally recommend this book to anyone interested in African American literature and its origins.
Jul 25, 2011
Sarah
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The last couple of chapters are pretty terrific - especially his discussion of Jacobs and Douglass. The first 150 and so pages are jammed with jargon and sleep-inducing. Important points and insight, but difficult reading.
Lit and historical criticism of first 100 years of African American autobiographical narratives.
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