This article aims at investigating the concept of authenticity and its connections with authority and cultural dominance in Ida B. Wells´s Crusade for Justice. Set in the Reconstruction period, Wells’s autobiography incorporates authenticating strategies typical of slave narratives and post-Emancipation political memoirs, therefore it can be analyzed as a work of transition that embodies the profound shift in authenticating issues occurring after Emancipation.
Crusade for Justice and the Question of Authenticity in African American Autobiography
DAL CHECCO, MONIA
2015
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This article aims at investigating the concept of authenticity and its connections with authority and cultural dominance in Ida B. Wells´s Crusade for Justice. Set in the Reconstruction period, Wells’s autobiography incorporates authenticating strategies typical of slave narratives and post-Emancipation political memoirs, therefore it can be analyzed as a work of transition that embodies the profound shift in authenticating issues occurring after Emancipation.File in questo prodotto:
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