Race and Form
Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography
©2007
Monographs
226 Pages
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- 226
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783039110032
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Autobiographie Narratology USA Rassische Identität (Motiv) Erzähltechnik Schwarze African American Autobiography Race Perspective
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2007. 226 pp.
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