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BL
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954479
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b708849
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| Main Entry
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Alabi, Adetayo
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| Title & Author
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Telling our stories : : continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies /\ by Adetayo Alabi.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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1 online resource (x, 185 pages)
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| ISBN
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1281368962
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: 1403967873
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: 1403980942
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: 6611368965
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: 9781281368966
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: 9781403967879
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: 9781403980946
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: 9786611368968
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1403967873
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1403980942
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction : the autobiographical genre in black societies -- 2. Theorizing race, theorizing blackness -- 3. Postcolonial theory and black literatures -- 4. Caliban, is that you? : slave narratives and the politics of resistance -- 5. Different, yet related : black creative autobiographers in dialogue -- 6. Communal resistance and subjectivity : black activists in racialized societies -- 7. Writing another life : the constructedness of the autobiographical genre.
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| Abstract
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Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The selected autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are in turn products of specific societies at specific periods and as interconnected books. The book pays particular attention to the various societies that produce the autobiographies directly to identify influences of environmental and cultural differences on the texts. To foreground the network these autobiographies form, on the other hand, the study adopts cross-cultural and postcolonial reading approaches to examine the continuities and divergences in them.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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American prose literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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Autobiography-- African American authors.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Biography.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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American prose literature-- African American authors.
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Autobiography-- African American authors.
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Autobiography: general.
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Black Asian studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literary theory.
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Society.
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Amerikaans.
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Autobiografieën.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/492009296073
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| LC Classification
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PS366.A35A44 2005eb
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