African American journalists
Subtitle: autobiography as memoir and manifesto
By: Calvin L. Hall.
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780810869301; 9780810869318
Subjects: American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African American authors -- Biography -- History and criticism; African American journalists -- Biography -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- African American authors; African American authors -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 'unexamined lives': the study of African American journalism autobiography; title: Journalism: memory, history, and context; title: Form, function and the public sphere in Jill Nelson's Volunteer slavery; title: Volunteer slavery and the speech aspects of the autobiographical manifesto; title: Surveillance and performance in Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler; title: Jake Lamar, Patricia Raybon and the autobiographical manifesto form; title: Memoir and the African American newsroom experience: themes and considerations; title: Conclusion: the synergy between race, class, gender, and profession in African American journalists' autobiographies.