Telling Our Stories

Download or read book Telling Our Stories written by A. Alabi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.