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Reading African American Autobiography Eric D. Lamore

Reading African American Autobiography By Eric D. Lamore

Reading African American Autobiography by Eric D. Lamore


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Summary

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.

Reading African American Autobiography Summary

Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism by Eric D. Lamore

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.

Reading African American Autobiography Reviews

These provocative essays reveal the exciting state of African American autobiographical studies. The critical approaches explored here-from new-media studies and eco-criticism to reading the interplay between visual and verbal autobiographical acts-not only frame and interpret the life narratives proliferating within today's digital and popular cultures, they enliven classic literary texts for a contemporary age.-Angela Ards, author of Words of Witness

About Eric D. Lamore

Eric D. Lamore is the editor of Teaching Olaudah Equiano's Narrative : Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives and coeditor of New Essays on Phillis Wheatley.

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NLS9780299309800
9780299309800
0299309800
Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism by Eric D. Lamore
New
Paperback
University of Wisconsin Press
2017-01-10
248
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