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Carter, Jeremiah Rahn Lewis.

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Moments of Creativity, Consciousness, and Critique: A Tradition in Black Male Autobiographies.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Moments of Creativity, Consciousness, and Critique: A Tradition in Black Male Autobiographies./
作者:	Carter, Jeremiah Rahn Lewis.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	41 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International55-05(E).
標題:	British & Irish literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10132963
ISBN:	9781339914558

Moments of Creativity, Consciousness, and Critique: A Tradition in Black Male Autobiographies.
Carter, Jeremiah Rahn Lewis.

Moments of Creativity, Consciousness, and Critique: A Tradition in Black Male Autobiographies. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 41 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Frederick Douglass's The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) remains one of the most famous autobiographies in American history. Douglass's book details experiences in the early life of a former American slave who would eventually escape to become one of the most recognizable abolitionists. While the Narrative is most often, and appropriately, discussed as an autobiography and distinct historical account, Douglass's work also possesses a literary quality. The literary quality is Douglass's tool of escape from the confines of traditional autobiography to produce a critique of the larger system and structure of American slavery. My understanding of the Narrative has led me to re-categorize it as a critical autobiography.

ISBN: 9781339914558Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

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520 $a Frederick Douglass's The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) remains one of the most famous autobiographies in American history. Douglass's book details experiences in the early life of a former American slave who would eventually escape to become one of the most recognizable abolitionists. While the Narrative is most often, and appropriately, discussed as an autobiography and distinct historical account, Douglass's work also possesses a literary quality. The literary quality is Douglass's tool of escape from the confines of traditional autobiography to produce a critique of the larger system and structure of American slavery. My understanding of the Narrative has led me to re-categorize it as a critical autobiography.
520 $a By critical autobiography, I mean the retelling of one's story with the purpose of critically addressing and revealing a larger oppressive structure. A similar strategy is employed by a number of black male writers in American history. 100 years after Douglass's Narrative, Richard Wright's Black Boy (1945) uses his personal witness as a black boy in the second decade of the 20th century through the 1930s as an avenue to critically explore Jim Crow in the American South and racism in the North. The Narrative and Black Boy are two pivotal texts in the tradition of African-American critical autobiography.
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520 $a Kendrick Lamar's album, Section .80, feature autobiographical lyrics that dually engages bleak inner city realities while critique racist institution structures that produce these realities. The 2011 independent release enters this artistic intellectual tradition, upheld by writers as Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, Langton Hughes, Sean Carter, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Barack Obama to name just a few, by connecting African American impoverishment and violence with a major source, the Ronald Reagan administration. In my investigation of theses texts a tradition emerges where in black men retell their stories of their coming to consciousness while shearing that developing consciousness to their audiences.
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