Table of Contents: Telling our stories

Main Author:	Alabi, Adetayo.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > History and criticism. Autobiography > African American authors. African Americans > Intellectual life.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10135538

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction : the autobiographical genre in black societies
2. Theorizing race, theorizing blackness
3. Postcolonial theory and black literatures
4. Caliban, is that you? : slave narratives and the politics of resistance
5. Different, yet related : black creative autobiographers in dialogue
6. Communal resistance and subjectivity : black activists in racialized societies
7. Writing another life : the constructedness of the autobiographical genre.