Wichtige Afro-Amerikanische Autobiographien

Wichtige Afro-Amerikanische Autobiographien
Essential Afro-American Autobiographies
"... in black autobiography one constantly finds refutation of the white ideas of America, of both the white concepts of white character and the white concepts of black."
Robert F. Sayre: "Autobiography and the Making of America". S. 165. In: James Olney, Hg.: Autobiography: Essays theoretical and critical. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1980. S. 146-168. –

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"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself." George Bernard Shaw; weitere

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1852	Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin – von einem "Whitie" – Rezension	HAL1
1845	Douglass, Frederick	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Rezension	NAAL HAL1
1847	Brown, William Wells	Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave Rezension	NAAL
1861	Brent, Linda (Harriet Jacobs)	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Rezension	NAAL HAL1
1853	Northup, Solomon	Twelve Years a Slave
1870	Bennett, Lerone, Jr.	Before the Mayflower. A History of the Negro in America 1619-1964
1901	Washington, Booker T.	Up from Slavery	NAAL HAL2
1911	Washington, Booker T.	My Larger Education
1940	Hughes, Langston	The Big Sea	NAAL
1956	Hughes, Langston	I Wonder as I Wander
1945	Wright, Richard	Black Boy – Rezension	NAAL
1965	Malcolm X & Alex Haley	The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Zitate Malcolm X	NAAL
1967	William Styron	The Confessions of Nat Turner – von einem "Whitie" Rezension
1968	Cleaver, Eldridge	Soul on Ice	NAAL
1969	Angelou, Maya	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Rezension	NAAL
1970	Jackson, George	Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
1973	Newton, Huey P.	Revolutionary Suicide
1974	Carter, Rubin „Hurricane"	The Sixteenth Round
1975	Carr, James	Bad. The Autobiography of James Carr
1978	Young, Sandra	Ein Rattenloch ist kein Vogelnest
1978	Cleaver, Eldridge	Soul on Fire
1984	Wideman, John Edgar	Brothers and Keepers	NAAL
1993	Ernest J. Gaines	A Lesson Before Dying – Rezension
2003	Richard Powers	The Time for our Singing – von einem "Whitie" Rezension

Legende: die jeweilige Autobiografie ist teilweise in folgenden Anthologien
NAAL Norton Anthology of African American Literature
HAL1 The Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol.1
HAL2 The Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol.2

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	William L. Andrews: African-American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall 1994. Taschenbuch: 231 Seiten
	Joanne M. Braxton: Black Women Writing Autobiography. Temple University Press 1991. Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
	James Oliver Horton: Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America. Rutgers University Press 2001. Taschenbuch 406 Seiten
	James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton: Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America: Volume II: African Roots Through the Civil War. Rutgers University Press 2002. Taschenbuch, 224 Seiten
	Henry Louis, Jr. Gates, Hg. Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Norton, 1996. 2665 Seiten
	Emmanuel S. Nelson, Hg.: African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood, 2002. Gebunden, 432 Seiten
	Emmanuel S. Nelson, Hg.: Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Deborah G. Plant (Einleitung). Westport: Greenwood, 1999. Gebunden, 552 Seiten
	Paul Lauter. The Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol.1.Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Auflage: 4th. 2960 Seiten
	Paul Lauter. The Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol.2 Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Auflage: 4th. 3168 Seiten