Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative by Smith, Valerie

Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674800885)

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Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative by Smith, Valerie

Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative

$37.00
Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative by Smith, Valerie

Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative

$37.00
Format: Paperback
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In this perceptive exploration of the relationship between autobiography and fiction in African-American writing, Valerie Smith argues that black writers--from the authors of nineteenth-century slave narratives to contemporary novelists--affirm and legitimize their psychological autonomy by telling the stories of their lives. Focusing on autobiographies by Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs and on the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, Smith demonstrates the ways in which the act of narrating constitutes an act of self-fashioning that must be understood in the context of the African-American experience. Hers is a fertile investigation, attuned to the differences in male and female sensibilities, and attentive to the importance of oral traditions.

Author: Valerie Smith
ISBN-10: 0674800885
ISBN-13: 9780674800885
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1991
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.51w x 0.58d

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