Up From Slavery (NCE) (Paper): A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Washington, Booker T.; Andrews, William L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393967255 ISBN 13: 9780393967258

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Synopsis

"Contexts and Composition History" includes a selection of letters between Washington and his editor, Lyman Abbott, that reveals the process by which Up From Slavery was planned and written. Reviews from The Nation, North American Review, and Colored American Magazine offer examples of contemporary reaction to the book. An excerpt from My Larger Education includes Washington's impressions of Frederick Douglass and of his African American critics (among them W. E. B. Du Bois) and reveals his reaction to the mounting criticism of his social, economic, and political programs during the last years of his life. "Criticism" offers a collection of eight essays that present a variety of perspectives on Up From Slavery by W. E. B. Du Bois, Kelly Miller, August Meier, Louis R. Harlan, Sidonie Smith, James M. Cox, Houston A. Baker, Jr., and William L. Andrews. Together, these essays represent ninety years of the best critical and historical analysis of Up From Slavery and its author. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

About this title

Product Description:

Up from Slavery This "Critical Edition" uses the text of the first edition, published in 1901. Accompanying material includes contemporary reviews, eight essays which present a variety of critical perspectives, and a collection of letters that reveal the process by which the autobiography was written. Full description

Review:

"This is an excellent book. It addresses a number of issues important to African American history and literature. The introduction is very successful in exposing the tension between the subject of autobiography--the crafted public self--and the far more complex, indeed enigmatic subject of real life. For those interested in the role of the individual in history, this book sheds light on the way Booker T. Washington used his skills of self-representation to amass power and influence in a racist society--his identity imposed forever upon the politics of racial self-help and the history of the New South."

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0393967255
• ISBN 13: 9780393967258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288