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Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861
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by John Ernest
Sales Rank: 294515
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$65.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 448 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press December 4, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 080782853X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807828533
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
Ernest knows the antebellum African American literary world, and knows it well. His book considerably deepens our appreciation for the rich tradition of African American historical thought and the forces that have shaped it.(Dickson D. Bruce Jr., University of California, Irvine author of The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865)
Ernest demonstrates that African Americans of the first half of the 19th century created a body of writing in which the spiritual, the historical, and the political are inextricably connected. He studies the representation of history in writings by David Walker, Martin R. Delany, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and others.
Product Description
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and the means for the liberation of the oppressed. In Liberation Historiography, John Ernest demonstrates that African Americans created a body of writing in which the spiritual, the historical, and the political are inextricably connected. Their literature serves not only as historical recovery but also as historical intervention.
Ernest studies various cultural forms including orations, books, pamphlets, autobiographical narratives, and black press articles. He shows how writers such as Martin R. Delany, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs crafted their texts in order to resituate their readers in a newly envisioned community of faith and moral duty. Antebellum African American historical representation, Ernest concludes, was both a reading of source material on black lives and an unreading of white nationalist history through an act of moral imagination.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (Paperback)
John Ernest presents the intellectual challenge that African-Americans faced during roughly the first century of America's existence. The challenge, he argues, is a complex one. "it is misleading to suggest simply that African American historians [were] faced with the task of correcting an inaccurate historical record--for there was no singular record, and the inaccuracies in the record were manifestations of a deeper problem." In fact, African-American writers such as Richard Allen, David Walker and J. Dennis Harris, struggled to reframe the discourse of the time, and make their way onto the stage in the theater of history. Ernest's discussion makes for a great case study in the true meaning of history and how we perceive it influences the present. As in any endeavor in intellectual history, the argument sometimes gets murky amongst the many actors, and books that he refers to, and the breadth of time that he addresses, but his focus is particularly good. Anyone interested in African-American history could make good use of this work to contextualize the events of the past.
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