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This book investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The selected autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are in turn products of particular societies at specific periods and as interconnected texts. The book pays particular attention to the various societies that produce the autobiographies directly, to identify influences of environmental and cultural differences on the texts. To foreground the network these autobiographies form, on the other hand, the study adopts cross-cultural and postcolonial reading approaches to examine the continuities and divergences in them. Chapter 1 discusses some previous studies in Black autobiographies, the comparative model for studying Black autobiographies, the choice of the term autobiography, what constitutes Black autobiographies, the self-in-service-ofcommunity pattern of Black autobiographies, and the oral antecedents of Black autobiographies. Chapter 2 theorizes Blackness as one of the continuities in the texts studied, and foregrounds its transformative capabilities to

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Author

A. Alabi, Adetayo Alabi

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349530335

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography