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McCleskey revealed a system of demonstrable, documented imba (.) Mumia thus introduces himself as a black man, the son of two African-Americans who had gone “ ‘Up Nawth’-the Northern tier of a Mason-Dixon line that marked the U.S.-Canadian border for some African-Americans” in the footsteps of black workers from Southern States to the North, “ both joined the Great Migration North in search of the fabled land of Equality, Opportunity, and Freedom for all” 4. and William H., two Southern souls, one dimpled, high cheek-boned, the color and aroma of sweet potatoes, the other short, muscular, coffee-colored (sans cream) ” (sic). This account is dedicated to the narrator’s deceased African-American parents, portrayed with both warmth and humour: “To Edith L.

3 Jamal changed his name from Wesley Cook to Mumia Abu-Jamal when he joined the Black Panther Party.ĢWesley Cook 3 alias Mumia Abu-Jamal’s narration, published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley, can be seen as a “graphy”, a written testimony about a “living organism”-a man from an ethnic minority as the narrator calls himself on page 1.

Our analysis will primarily focus on the second concept (“life-course of a living being”) which is more relevant to our case study. bi-, bio-living organism, mode of life + graphia-graphy” 2).

This genre is distinct from the biography genre, in which the narrator and the main character of the story have two separate identities (“an account of a person’s life written or produced by someone else”).Biography can benefit from an enlarged semantic connotation, no longer restrictedtoa“written life of a person” but designating also “a branch of literature dealing with persons’ lives”, and/or “life-course of a living being” (from “L. 2 Concise Oxford Dictionary, 5 th edition, Oxford, Clarendon, 1960.ġOur primary assumption would be that Live from Death Row 1, a narration of daily life in an American death row prison by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death row prisoner himself, belongs to the autobiography genre, defined by dictionaries as “the biography of a person that is written by that person”.

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, USA, 1995. 1 Mumia Abu-Jamal, Live from Death Row.