Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery /
Analyzes Black women's rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.
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| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Serier: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Speaking Power; C o n t e n t s; P r e f a c e; A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s; I N T R O D U C T I O N: "So my mother told me"African American Women's Writing and Oral Traditions; 1. Speak Sisters, Speak Oral Empowerment in LOUISA PICQUET, The OCTOROON; The NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH; and INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL; 2. Tale-Baring and Dressing Out Black Women's Speech Acts That Expose Torture and Abuse by Slave Mistresses in OUR NIG, SYLVIA DUBOIS, and THE STORY OF MATTIE J. JACKSON; 3. Strategic Silence Respectability, Gender, and Protest in IOLA LEROY and CONTENDING FORCES.
- 4. "Will the circle be unbroken"(Dis)Locating Love within the Legacy of Slavery in THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD and CORREGIDORA5. Black Girls Singing Black Girls' Songs Exploring the Wounds of Slavery to Heal Contemporary Pain in BELOVED, DESSA ROSE, KINDRED, and THE GILDA STORIES; C o d a: Sister Griot-Historians Representing Events and Lives for Liberation; N o t e s; B i b l i o g r a p h y; I n d e x; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.