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Alabi, Adetayo.

Telling our stories continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies / [electronic resource] : by Adetayo Alabi. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - x, 185 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

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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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African Americans--History and criticism.--Biography
Autobiography--African American authors.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS366.A35 / A44 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/492009296073