Doers of the word : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880)
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- ISBN: 0195085191 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780195085198 (alk. paper)
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ix, 284 p. : ill ; 25 cm. - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "Doers of the word": theorizing African-American women speakers and writers in the antebellum North -- "A sign unto this nation": sojourner truth, history, orature, and modernity -- "Humble instruments in the hands of God": Maria Stewart, Jarena Lee, and the economy of spiritual narrative -- "Coloured tourists": Nancy Prince, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, ethnographic writing, and the question of home -- Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me": the oratorical careers of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Sarah Parker Remond -- "Forced to some experiment": novelization in the writings of Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Seeking the "Writable": Charlotte Forten and the problem of narration -- Home/Nation/Institutions: African-American women and the work of Reconstruction (1863-1880). |
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