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Telling our stories continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alabi, Adetayo
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:

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.