TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Dejin Xu
PY  - 2007
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Race and Form
T2  - Towards a Contextualized Narratology of African American Autobiography
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102420
N2  - 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.
KW  - Autobiographie, Narratology, USA, Rassische Identität (Motiv), Erzähltechnik, Schwarze, African American, Autobiography, Race, Perspective
LA  - English
ER  -