Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-first-century Contexts and Criticism - Couverture rigide

Lamore, Eric D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0299309800 ISBN 13 : 9780299309800

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2017

Synopsis

This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help culture, non-Western religious traditions, and the politics of adoption.
            The life narratives studied range from an eighteenth-century criminal narrative, a 1918 autobiography, and the works of Richard Wright to new media, graphic novels, and a celebrity memoir from Pam Grier.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eric D. Lamore is an associate professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.  He is the editor of Teaching Olaudah Equiano&;s Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives and coeditor of New Essays on Phillis Wheatley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299309800
• ISBN 13: 9780299309800
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible