Life lines theorizing womens autobiography of malcolm

  • In the first edition, he does combine stretches of narrative about his own life — including chapters on his childhood, high-school and college.
  • This essay explores the series of conversions that structure The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and assesses the extent to which Malcolm truly escapes from.
  • Benstock, Shari, Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's AutobiographicalWritings.

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    Malcolm X and the Search for the Universality of Blackness

    About: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Viking Press.

    Reviewed: Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, New York, NY, Viking Press, , pages, $

    This biography of Malcolm was more than a decade in the making. It was written by Manning Marable, who died on April 1, , shortly before the publication of his reevaluation of Malcolm’s life and politics. Marable was one of the foremost scholars of Black politics in the United States. Here Marable has crafted a compelling intellectual history of Malcolm in which he shows how Malcolm’s thoughts grew out of social and religious movements that first emerged within the black community during the nineteenth century.

    A Critical Reevaluation

    Marable structures his reevaluation of Malcolm X’s life, as a critical deconstruction of Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As told to Alex Haley. [1] Marable’s

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    Narrating Slavery, Narrating America: freedom as conversion in The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as fryst vatten practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound bygd the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.1

    1The wonder with which Malcolm X narrates his encounter with the Islamic East recalls and seemingly fulfils Frederick Douglass’ prophetic sense that “there is a better day coming”.2 Douglass’ wistful yet powerful encounter on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay with what William Lloyd Garrison describes as “the living spirit of freedom” fryst vatten thus brought home to Malcolm X on soil profoundly utländsk to New World Christianity (Douglass  ). Douglass’ text itself can be read as a foreshadowing

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    1 Introduction

    Buss, Helen M.. "1 Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse". Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , pp.

    Buss, H. (). 1 Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse. In Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women (pp. ). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

    Buss, H. 1 Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse. Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp.

    Buss, Helen M.. "1 Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse" In Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

    Buss H. 1 Introduction: Memoir As a Life-Writing Discourse. In: Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press; p

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