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History of African American Autobiography by Joycelyn Moody (2021, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108835546
ISBN-139781108835541
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050078810
Product Key Features
Number of Pages370 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHistory of African American Autobiography
Publication Year2021
SubjectGeneral, American / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorJoycelyn Moody
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingA
Reviews'Readers looking for one book illuminating the range and value of African American life writings will find Moody's book ideal. This collection demonstrates that critical race theory matters now more than ever. ... Essential.' F. L. Gardaphe, CHOICE
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal808.066920009296073
Table Of Content1. Introduction Joycelyn K. Moody; Part I. Origins and Histories: 2. Black life writing and print culture before 1800 Rhondda Robinson Thomas; 3. Reading the edited 'I' Eric D. Lamore; 4. An overview of nineteenth-century slavery narratives William L. Andrews; 5. 19th-century autobiographical writings by freeborn African Americans John Ernest; 6. African American life writing, 1865-1900 Andreá N. Williams; 7. Black life writing in print cultures at the turn into the twentieth century Lois Brown; 8. New negro autobiographies Cherene Sherrard Johnson; 9. Transnational and postcolonial Afro-Caribbean life writings Nicole Aljoe; 10. Writing race and remembrance in the Civil Rights Movement years Brian J. Norman; 11. The biomedicalization of black life narratives Moya Bailey and Whitney Peoples; Part II. Individuals and Communities: 12. Spiritual autobiography, past and present Cedrick May; 13. Life writings of contemporary African American women Barbara McCaskill; 14. The Autobiography of Malcolm X James Smethurst; 15. Black queer life writing Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman; 16. Black celebrity auto/biographies Anthony Foy; 17. Mixed race autobiographical narratives Caroline Streeter; 18. Black biography and the complexities of telling another's life Tara D. Green; 19. Black lives in persona poems Howard Rambsy II; 20. Depicting African American life in graphics and visual cultures Michael Chaney; 21. Life writing for Black children and youth Giselle Anatol; 22. Telling African American lives in literature for young readers Jonda McNair; 23. Can cups be books? Frances Smith Foster.
SynopsisThis book explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. It will be a key resource for graduates and researchers in African American Literary studies, American literature more generally, and specialists in Life Writing., 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.
LC Classification NumberCT21
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