Telling our stories continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies / [electronic resource] :
by Adetayo Alabi.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- x, 185 p.
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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American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism. African Americans--History and criticism.--Biography Autobiography--African American authors. African Americans--Intellectual life. African Americans in literature.