Reading African American autobiography : twenty-first-century contexts and criticism / edited by Eric D. Lamore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamore, Eric D., editor.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Autobiography.

African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

Autobiography--African American authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: African American autobiography in the "age of Obama" / Eric D. Lamore

"A dying man": the outlaw body of Arthur, 1768 / Lynn A. Casmier-Paz

Early black men's spiritual autobiography: marriage and violence / Joycelyn K. Moody

Olaudah Equiano in the United States: Abigail Mott's 1829 abridged edition of the Interesting Narrative / Eric D. Lamore

The visual properties of black autobiography: the case of William J. Edwards / Anthony S. Foy

Richard Wright's environments: mediating personhood through the South's second nature / Susan Scott Parrish

"A space of concentration": the autobiographical comics of Richard "Grass" Green and Samuel R. Delany / Brian Cremins

Born into this body: black women's use of Buddhism in autobiographical narratives / Tracy Curtis

From blog to books: Angela Nissel, authorship, and the digital public sphere / Linda Furgerson Selzer

Grafted belongings: identification in autobiographical narratives of African American transracial adoptees / Marina Fedosik

Reading signs of crazy: Pam Grier, a black feminist in praxis / Kwakiutl L. Dreher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299309800

0299309800

OCLC:

946725758