Black autobiography in America. / Stephen Butterfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butterfield, Stephen.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American prose literature--African American authors.

African American authors--Biography--History and criticism.

African American authors--Biography.

African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.

African Americans--Biography.

Autobiography--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 303 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.

Contents:

One. The Slave-Narrative Period (ca. 1831-1895) Point of View in the Slave Narratives; Language and the Slave Experience; The White Influence; Frederick Douglass: Language as a Weapon

Two. The Period of Search (ca. 1901-1961) In Search of a Unified Self; In Search of a Social Role; In Search of a Voice; Richard Wright

Three. The Period of Rebirth (since 1961) James Baldwin: The Growth of a New Radicalism; Autobiographies of Black Women: Ida Wells, Maya Angelou, Anne Moody; Inside History: The Revolutionary Self; The Language of Black Satire; History as Subjective Experience.

Notes:

"Designed by Richard Hendel."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-300) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks copy is paperbound edition.

ISBN:

0870231618

0870231626

OCLC:

1166475