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amanuensis

noun clerk, recorder, recording secreeary, scribe, scrivener, secretary, writer

AMANUENSIS. One who write another dictates. About the beginning of the sixth century,, the tabellions (q.v.) were known by this name. 1 Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. Age, n. 16.

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Although Wagner calls the archive he investigates "remarkable for its limitations," his determination to reinterpret black folk culture and its pioneering amanuenses through the prism of shifting patterns of Southern urban policing gives his project an expansive feel; unexpected juxtapositions combine to produce a revisionist wallop.
Bryan Wagner. Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power After Slavery
Similarly, it is difficult for us to know how much of Margery's text is a faithful recording of her memories, how reliable those memories might be, and how much they are shaped by her amanuenses, if these scribes existed at all (Staley 1994: 36).
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Specifically, chapter four boldly critiques the shortcomings of white women amanuenses of African American women's narratives.
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Like James himself, Coleridge dictated much of his later prose, and he had a knack for recruiting unpaid amanuenses.
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Are scribes and amanuenses independent editor-authors, or just invisible technicians?
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Visibly cognizant of the historical tendency, at least as old as the slave narratives, for white amanuenses to alter and appropriate black subjectivity, Pearson takes pains to privilege the voices of the musicians themselves, stating that "those most qualified to interpret the art form are its own traditional practitioners" (xxx).
Barry Lee Pearson. Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
During his ordination sermon, chronicled by at least two amanuenses, Marrant related his previous experiences with preaching to African slaves.
John Marrant and the narrative construction of an early black Methodist evangelical

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