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BL
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991880
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b746250
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Williams, Roland Leander.
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| Title & Author
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African American autobiography and the quest for freedom /\ Roland L. Williams, Jr.
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| Publication Statement
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Westport, Conn. :: Greenwood Press,, 2000.
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| Series Statement
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Contributions in Afro-American and African studies,; no. 191
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1 online resource (xiii, 155 pages)
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| ISBN
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0313097151
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: 9780313097157
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0313305854
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9780313305856
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Dead Reckoning; 2. Blackwall Hitch; 3. Crow's Nest; 4. Jacob's Ladder; 5. Territorial Waters; Postscript; Sources; Index.
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| Abstract
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Slave narratives were one of the earliest forms of African American writing. These works, autobiographical in nature, later fostered other pieces of African American autobiography. Since the rise of Black Studies in the late 1960s, leading critics have constructed black lives and letters as antitheses of the ways and writings of mainstream American culture. According to such thinking, black writing stems from a set of experiences very different from the world of whites, and black autobiography must therefore differ radically from heroic white American tales. But in pointing to differences betw.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Education-- History.
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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-- Education.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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American prose literature-- African American authors.
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Autobiografie
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Autobiography-- African American authors.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literatur
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Schwarze.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/492/000926073
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PS366.A35W55 2000
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