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Telling Our Stories : Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies /

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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 stories of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are products of specific soc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alabi, Adetayo (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Literature.
African Literature.
Ethnicity Studies.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
African literature.
Ethnicity.
Literature > Philosophy.
America > Literatures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The stories of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are products of specific societies and as interconnected books. The book identifies influences of environmental and cultural differences on the texts while it adopts cross-cultural and postcolonial reading approaches to examine the continuities and divergences in them.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 185 pages)
ISBN:9781403980946
DOI:10.1057/9781403980946