A History of African American Autobiography

1. Introduction Joycelyn K. Moody; Part I. Origins and Histories: 2. Black life writing and print culture before 1800 Rhondda Robinson Thomas; 3. Reading the edited 'I' Eric D. Lamore; 4. An overview of nineteenth-century slavery narratives William L. Andrews; 5. 19th-century autobiographical writings by freeborn African Americans John Ernest; 6. African American life writing, 1865-1900 Andrea N. Williams; 7. Black life writing in print cultures at the turn into the twentieth century Lois Brown; 8. New negro autobiographies Cherene Sherrard Johnson; 9. Transnational and postcolonial Afro-Caribbean life writings Nicole Aljoe; 10. Writing race and remembrance in the Civil Rights Movement years Brian J. Norman; 11. The biomedicalization of black life narratives Moya Bailey and Whitney Peoples; Part II. Individuals and Communities: 12. Spiritual autobiography, past and present Cedrick May; 13. Life writings of contemporary African American women Barbara McCaskill; 14. The Autobiography of Malcolm X James Smethurst; 15. Black queer life writing Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman; 16. Black celebrity auto/biographies Anthony Foy; 17. Mixed race autobiographical narratives Caroline Streeter; 18. Black biography and the complexities of telling another's life Tara D. Green; 19. Black lives in persona poems Howard Rambsy II; 20. Depicting African American life in graphics and visual cultures Michael Chaney; 21. Life writing for Black children and youth Giselle Anatol; 22. Telling African American lives in literature for young readers Jonda McNair; 23. Can cups be books? Frances Smith Foster.