Bibliograph

Speaking power, Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery, DoVeanna S. Fulton

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Speaking power, Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery, DoVeanna S. Fulton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-157) and index

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contains biographical information

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Speaking power

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

58456838

Responsibility statement

DoVeanna S. Fulton

Sub title

Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery

Table Of 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

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