African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays

Abstract

Introduction. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James Bronniosaw and the Trope of the Talking Book. Robert B. Stepto, Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of 1845. Deborah E. McDowell, In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition. Hazel V. Carby, Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters : Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation. William L. Andrews, The Representation of Slavery and the Rise of Afro-American Literary Realism, 1865-1920. Joanne M. Braxton, Crusader for Justice: Ida B. Wells. Francoise Lionnet, Autoethnography: The An-Archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road. Charles T. Davis, From Experience to Eloquence: Richard Wright's Black Boy as Art. Paul John Eakin, Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography. George E. Kent, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Black Autobiographical Tradition. Albert E. Stone, After Black Boy and Dusk of Dawn: Patterns in Recent Black Autobiography. Sandra Pouquet Paquet, West Indian Autobiography. James Olney, The Value of Autobiography for Comparative Studies: African vs. Western Autobiography. Chronology of Important Dates. Notes on Contributors. Bibliography.