Research Catalog

Title

Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood / Xiomara Santamarina.

Author

Santamarina, Xiomara.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

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Description

xiv, 222 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-210) and index.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc D 05-2257

ISBN

• 0807829811 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0807856487 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005010229

OCLC

59147986

Author

Santamarina, Xiomara.

Title

Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood / Xiomara Santamarina.

Imprint

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-210) and index.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Research Call Number

Sc D 05-2257