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T1 From Slave to Historian: the Case of James Lindsay Smith's Postbellum Autobiography
A1 Gimeno Pahissa, Laura
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB The present article analyzes The Autobiography of James Lindsay Smith (1881), a largely ignored text written by a former slave after the American Civil War. His text is a remarkable example of the black autobiographies written between the end of the war and the turn of the century which struggled to find a new format, style and language that would distance them from the genre of the slave narrative. Although Smith still relies on certain set episodes from the antebellum genre, he also demythologizes slave solidarity, and emphasizes black servants' strategies to survive in a hostile world. Besides, he incorporates, for the first time in postbellum black American literature, a historical appreciation of the African American war effort and vindicates the figure of the black soldier.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17392
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17392
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2011, N.32, pags.125-146
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-abr-2024