Race and Form : Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography
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Dejin Xu
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3039110039
ISBN-13
9783039110032
Edition
New
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 29th, 2007
Print length
226 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.40 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Society & culture: general
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This study presents a contextualized narratology of African American autobiography. The author compares eight autobiographies by seven African American writers from different periods (namely, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks) and focuses on both the issue of race and such formal elements as temporal arrangement, narrative situation, narrative perspective, present tense, commentary, unreliability as well as audience. In addition to proposing a major framework for the narratology of autobiography in the opening chapter, the succeeding practical analyses draw on other approaches, such as stylistics and rhetoric, which complement narratology in the investigation of «how» a story is presented.
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