Telling our stories [electronic resource] : continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies / by Adetayo Alabi.
By: Alabi, Adetayo.
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Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: x, 185 p.Subject(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 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 810.9/384 Nothing abstract | 810.9/492 Slippery characters | 810.9/492 Mediating American autobiography | 810.9/492009296073 Telling our stories | 810.9/5092 William Empson | 810.9/851 By the breath of their mouths | 810.9/86872 Spilling the beans in Chicanolandia |
Includes 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.