Telling our stories continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies - Alabi, Adetayo; ebrary, Inc. (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: 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 literature; Electronic books