Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism

by Eric D. Lamore

This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299309800
• ISBN13: 9780299309800
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"