Telling our stories
Subtitle: continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies
By: by Adetayo Alabi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: 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.
Description: "Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The stories of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are products of specific societies and as interconnected books. The book identifies influences of environmental and cultural differences on the texts while it adopts cross-cultural and postcolonial reading approaches to examine the continuities and divergences in them."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index.