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Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery
- Title
- Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery / DoVeanna S. Fulton.
- Author
- Fulton, DoVeanna S., 1967-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
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- Description
- xvi, 164 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century
- Autobiography > Women authors
- Oral tradition > United States
- Slavery in literature
- Feminism and literature > United States
- Autobiography > African American authors
- American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Women slaves > United States > Biography > History and criticism
- African American women > Biography > History and criticism
- Slave narratives > United States > History and criticism
- Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-157) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Black feminist orality: identifying a tradition -- Introduction: "So my mother told me": African American women's writing and oral traditions -- Speak sisters, speak: oral empowerment in Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon; The narrative of Sojourner Truth; and Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- 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 -- Strategic silence: respectability, gender and protest in Iola Leroy and Contending forces -- "Will the circle be unbroken": (dis)locating love within the legacy of slavery in Their eyes were watching God and Corregidora -- Black girls singing black girls' songs: exploring the wounds of slavery to heal contemporary pain in Beloved, Dessa Rose, Kindred, and The Gilda stories -- Coda: Sister griot-historians: representing events and lives for liberation.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-416
- ISBN
- 079146637X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005006548
- 9780791466377
- OCLC
- 58456838
- Author
- Fulton, DoVeanna S., 1967-
- Title
- Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery / DoVeanna S. Fulton.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-157) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780791466377
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-416