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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195103734
ISBN-13
9780195103731
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57055
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Publication Name
Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths : Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Subject
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-022441
Reviews
"This thoroughly researched book...comes just in time--when some of us are beginning to forget what real heroism is."--Quarterly Black Review "V.P. Franklin graciously, elegantly distills the autobiographical reflections of leading African-American intellectuals, telling the truth about our condition in America."--Mary Frances Berry, Chairperson, United States Commission on Civil Rights, "A readable discussion of the artistic, intellectual and political contributions of 12 influential black writers who wrote autobiographical works."--The Plain Dealer, "V.P. Franklin graciously, elegantly distills the autobiographical reflections of leading African-American intellectuals, telling the truth about our condition in America. Their wisdom, out of our past, counsels our present and guides our future."--Mary Frances Berry, Chairperson, UnitedStates Commission on Civil Rights, and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, "This thoroughly researched book...comes just in time--when some of us are beginning to forget what real heroism is."--Quarterly Black Review"V.P. Franklin graciously, elegantly distills the autobiographical reflections of leading African-American intellectuals, telling the truth about our condition in America."--Mary Frances Berry, Chairperson, United States Commission on Civil Rights, "Profoundly provocative....Franklin deftly probes the shape and substance of what he deems the most important literary genre in the African American intellectual tradition. His masterful exegesis adds to the understanding of the black heritage offered in Black Self-Determination....Highlyrecommended."--Library Journal, "With a magician's sleight of hand, V.P. Franklin breathes astounding life into many of the great African-American men and women in politics and literature. He avoids the trap of presenting these celebrated leaves with awe or sentiment. they are here with all their successes and all theirfaults. Through his skill and restraint, these men and women live through their own words as neither saints nor sinners--not wooden idols but human beings. A historian has managed to give the reader what only the best novelists can: the stories of people you come to care about deeply and want toreturn to again and again."--Gloria Naylor, author of Bailey's Cafe and The Women of Brewster Place, "This thoroughly researched and very well-written book makes vivid the lives and work of people who managed to make meaning and change in their lives and ours, and it comes just in time--when some of us are beginning to forget what real heroism is."--Quarterly Black Review, "This thoroughly researched book...comes just in time--when some of us are beginning to forget what real heroism is."-- Quarterly Black Review "V.P. Franklin graciously, elegantly distills the autobiographical reflections of leading African-American intellectuals, telling the truth about our condition in America."--Mary Frances Berry, Chairperson, United States Commission on Civil Rights, "With fluent commentary and language, Franklin highlights the importance of autobiography in the African-American literary tradtion....Extensive research enlivened by a good critical eye and vivid writing distinguishes this thoughtful book."--Kirkus Reviews, "Franklin takes his readers on an exciting intellectual excursion during which we are prodded to engage a wide range of issues."--Indiana Magazine of History
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
920/.009296073 B
Synopsis
From the publication of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845 to Brent Staples' Parallel Time in the 1990s, the autobiography has been the most important literary genre in the African-American intellectual tradition. This book provides a comprehensive examination of African-American intellectual history, presenting original interpretations of the lives and thought of 12 major black American writers and political leaders who have played a central role in this powerful literary genre., From the publication of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave in 1845 to Lorene Cary's Black Ice and Brent Staples's Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White in the 1990s, the autobiography has been the most important literary genre in the African-American intellectual tradition. Whether used to clarify the nature of the relationship between ideology and personal experience or simply because "oftentimes personal truth was stranger than fiction," the autobiography fulfilled the need to define the individual "black self" to a society that denied the existence of black reality. In Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths , V.P. Franklin provides the first comprehensive examination of African-American intellectual history in over twenty-five years, presenting original interpretations of the lives and thought of twelve major black American writers and political leaders who played a central role in this powerful literary genre. Focusing on the autobiographical works of such prominent figures as Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser known but equally crucial figures including Alexander Crummell, who declared black Americans a "chosen people" of the Lord, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the most famous black American woman at the turn of the century, Franklin shows that the need to tell the truth to authority, to document the original cultural contributions of rural and urban blacks, and to defend the interests of the black working class has always been a principal preoccupation of African-American intellectuals. The particular areas of the "race problem" that these individuals chose to focus on, however, were as varied as the times in which they wrote: from James Weldon Johnson's commitment to documenting the significant artistic and cultural contributions of African-Americans and James Baldwin's view that African-Americans were destined "to redeem the soul of America" to Malcolm X's rejection of integrationist doctrines and Harry Haywood's determination that the leadership of the Communist Party recognize the revolutionary potential of the black working class. And through it all, the objectives are strikingly similar--self-determination, "race vindication," and the struggle for freedom have all been at the core of the collective experience of African Americans in the United States. Given the negative evaluations of black culture and community coming from the larger white-dominated society, African-American intellectuals used their autobiographies to tell the truth about the nature of the black experience in this society and throughout the world. Providing personal accounts of what freedom meant and how it could be achieved, the autobiography allowed African-American intellectuals to use their personal experience as a mirror to reflect the larger social and political context for black America. A major contribution to American history, Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths acknowledges this rich tradition and makes it clear that these works provide a vital intellectual legacy for African-Americans as they enter the twenty-first century., From the publication of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave in 1845 to Lorene Cary's Black Ice and Brent Staples's Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White in the 1990s, the autobiography has been the most important literary genre in the African-American intellectual tradition. Whether used to clarify the nature of the relationship between ideology and personal experience or simply because "oftentimes personal truth was stranger than fiction," the autobiography fulfilled the need to define the individual "black self" to a society that denied the existence of black reality. In Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths, V.P. Franklin provides the first comprehensive examination of African-American intellectual history in over twenty-five years, presenting original interpretations of the lives and thought of twelve major black American writers and political leaders who played a central role in this powerful literary genre. Focusing on the autobiographical works of such prominent figures as Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser known but equally crucial figures including Alexander Crummell, who declared black Americans a "chosen people" of the Lord, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the most famous black American woman at the turn of the century, Franklin shows that the need to tell the truth to authority, to document the original cultural contributions of rural and urban blacks, and to defend the interests of the black working class has always been a principal preoccupation of African-American intellectuals. The particular areas of the "race problem" that these individuals chose to focus on, however, were as varied as the times in which they wrote: from James Weldon Johnson's commitment to documenting the significant artistic and cultural contributions of African-Americans and James Baldwin's view that African-Americans were destined "to redeem the soul of America" to Malcolm X's rejection of integrationist doctrines and Harry Haywood's determination that the leadership of the Communist Party recognize the revolutionary potential of the black working class. And through it all, the objectives are strikingly similar--self-determination, "race vindication," and the struggle for freedom have all been at the core of the collective experience of African Americans in the United States. Given the negative evaluations of black culture and community coming from the larger white-dominated society, African-American intellectuals used their autobiographies to tell the truth about the nature of the black experience in this society and throughout the world. Providing personal accounts of what freedom meant and how it could be achieved, the autobiography allowed African-American intellectuals to use their personal experience as a mirror to reflect the larger social and political context for black America. A major contribution to American history, Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths acknowledges this rich tradition and makes it clear that these works provide a vital intellectual legacy for African-Americans as they enter the twenty-first century.
LC Classification Number
E185.96.F74 1996
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