Title:	African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom
Authors:	Roland L., Williams, Jr
Keywords:	American prose literature—Afro-American authors—History and criticism.
Issue Date:	2000
Publisher:	Green wood
Description:	My study endorses earlier images of black people in the country, conceived by critics like Sterling Brown. It inscribes the nation as a stage where blacks perform odd roles in a drama of "pioneers," progressive types akin to the Quakers, who rival "settlers," traditionalist sorts related to the Puritans. The civic performance ha s promoted the conception and cultivation of a convention domestically as meaningful as the Odyssey in Athens and the Aeneid in Rome. Complicated by color prejudice, circumstances have drawn everyone in the land to the novel convention, yet blacks to a special degree, proven by my great-grandfather in his actions and other blacks in their autobiographies, first in the work of slaves like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harrie t Jacobs and continuing on through Colin Powell's story My American Journey. With their fellow Americans, blacks have shared and shaped the culture; it shows in their favorite styles as well as their statements
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9801
ISBN:	0-313-30585-4
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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