Williams, Roland Leander
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Hardcover
Edition: Series#:91; Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies
140 pages
Index
Published: 2000
Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN / EAN: 0313305854
Casts African American autobiographies as a form of the epic, in which learning creates a passage to freedom. This volume argues that African-American autobiography is a continuation of the epic tradition. It makes clear that the writers of black autobiog