Contending discourses of black autobiography: respectability, authenticity, and masculinity

After historicizing the politics of racial representation in the slave narrative, this article considers how race, gender, and class intersect historically in the autobiographical production of Black men in the United States. At the dawn of the Jim Crow era, Black autobiography conformed to a cultur...

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Main Author: Anthony Foy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2021-06-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/78580