Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies

Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The stories of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are products of specific societies and as interconnected books. The book identifies influences of environmental and cultural differences on the texts while it adopts cross-cultural and postcolonial reading approaches to examine the continuities and divergences in them.

Author: A. Alabi
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 185
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.88w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781403967879

About the Author
ADETAYO ALABI taught Postcolonial and International Literatures at Millikin University in Illinois, USA and at the University of Windsor in Canada. He published entries in the Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures and in The Companion to African Literatures. He has also published several chapters in books, including Ogoni's Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria, The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, and Marvels of the African World: African Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities; and in journals like Liwuram, African Literature Today, and In-Between.