My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the ProfessionsRoutledge, 1993 - 213 pages Presents the lives of early 20th-century African-American women in a unique context - their own words. The women themselves are as extraordinary as the language they use to describe their experiences, at home, university and work. |
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... Harriet Ja- cobs ' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an important example of subterfuge which almost lost the narrative to obscurity . Jean Fagan Yellin , editor of the 1987 reprint of Jacobs ' narrative explained that the first ...
... Harriet Ja- cobs ' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an important example of subterfuge which almost lost the narrative to obscurity . Jean Fagan Yellin , editor of the 1987 reprint of Jacobs ' narrative explained that the first ...
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... Harriet had another reason to seek anonymity as was evident in the text of her narrative . Yellin explained that Jacobs was deeply troubled by failing to adhere to " moral ” standards and even in middle age felt her " youthful distress ...
... Harriet had another reason to seek anonymity as was evident in the text of her narrative . Yellin explained that Jacobs was deeply troubled by failing to adhere to " moral ” standards and even in middle age felt her " youthful distress ...
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... Harriet Wilson . Both women suffered many of the same tragedies ( poverty , desertion , sexual oppression ) and both desperately wanted to improve their lives . This intermingling of the author's life with that of the heroine is more ...
... Harriet Wilson . Both women suffered many of the same tragedies ( poverty , desertion , sexual oppression ) and both desperately wanted to improve their lives . This intermingling of the author's life with that of the heroine is more ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
activities African American students African American women asked autobiography black women brother called campus career club collaborative course culture discrimination Dust Tracks early Elmira embedding example experience father felt finished high school friends gender girl gonna grade graduated grandfather grandmother guess happened Harriet Harriet Jacobs Harriet Wilson Henry Louis Gates Hurston's important interesting interview kind knew language law school lives Louisa male married Mattison mean mother narrator Nellie McKay never oral narrative parents Pauli Murray pause Phi Beta Kappa position question race racism redneck remember reported speech Schomburg Library segment sexism sister slave narratives slavery social Spanish speak story talk taught teacher teaching tell things thought tion told took town tradition trying woman words writing written Yeah York young Zora