Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative
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In this perceptive exploration of the relationship between autobiography and fiction in African-American writing, Valerie Smith argues that black writers--from the authors of nineteenth-century slave narratives to contemporary novelists--affirm and legitimize their psychological autonomy by telling the stories of their lives. Focusing on autobiographies by Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs and on the fiction of James Weldon Johnson,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674800885
ISBN13:9780674800885
Release Date:October 1991
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:180 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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