African American journalists : autobiography as memoir and manifesto / Calvin L. Hall.

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Main Author: Hall, Calvin L., 1964-
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American authors > Biography > History and criticism.
African American journalists > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African American authors > Intellectual life.
Genre:
Biography
Physical Description:xxviii, 117 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "unexamined lives" : the study of African American journalism autobiography
  • Journalism : memory, history, and context
  • Form, function, and the public sphere in Jill Nelson's Volunteer slavery
  • Volunteer slavery and the speech aspects of the autobiographical manifesto
  • Surveillance and performance in Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler
  • Jake Lamar, Patricia Raybon, and the autobiographical manifesto form
  • Memoir and the African American newsroom experience : themes and considerations
  • Conclusion: the synergy between race, class, gender, and profession in African American journalists' autobiographies.