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Xiomara SantamarinaPublication Details
BookUniversity of North Carolina Press2005Availability
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According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as “doers of the word.” As Santamarina demonstrates, these texts offer modern readers new perspectives on the emergence of the vital African American autobiographical tradition, dramatizing the degree to which black working women participated in and shaped American rhetorics of labor, race, and femininity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American prose literature — African American authors — History and criticism
- American prose literature — Women authors — History and criticism
- American prose literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Women and literature — United States — History — 19th century
- African American women — Biography — History and criticism
- African American women — Intellectual life — 19th century
- African American women in the professions — History
- African American women — Employment — History
- Narration (Rhetoric) — History — 19th century
- Autobiography — African American authors
- African American women in literature
- Autobiography — Women authors
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- Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth
- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig
- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser
- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity
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- 0807856487
- 0807829811
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