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Reading African American Autobiography
Eric D. . Ed(S): Lamore
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Description for Reading African American Autobiography
Hardback. From the 1760s to Barack Obama, this collection offers fresh looks at classic African American life narratives; highlights neglected African American lives, texts, and genres; and discusses the diverse outpouring of twenty-first-century memoirs. Editor(s): Lamore, Eric D. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. .
This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help culture, non-Western religious traditions, and the politics of adoption.
The life narratives studied range ... Read more
This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help culture, non-Western religious traditions, and the politics of adoption.
The life narratives studied range ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299309800
SKU
V9780299309800
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About Eric D. . Ed(S): Lamore
Eric D. Lamore is the editor of Teaching Olaudah Equiano’s “Narrative” : Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives and coeditor of New Essays on Phillis Wheatley.
Reviews for Reading African American Autobiography
“These provocative essays reveal the exciting state of African American autobiographical studies. The critical approaches explored here—from new-media studies and eco-criticism to reading the interplay between visual and verbal autobiographical acts—not only frame and interpret the life narratives proliferating within today’s digital and popular cultures, they enliven classic literary texts for a contemporary age.”—Angela Ards, author of Words of Witness ... Read more