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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... Hurston's autobiography is criticized because the writer exercises authority over her own life story . She reveals some details and conceals others . Robert E. Hemenway , Hurston's biographer , begins his critique of Dust Tracks by re ...
... Hurston's autobiography is criticized because the writer exercises authority over her own life story . She reveals some details and conceals others . Robert E. Hemenway , Hurston's biographer , begins his critique of Dust Tracks by re ...
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... Hurston's idea , was she not entitled to change her mind ? Hemenway dwells on what he refers to as a pattern of " paradoxes " throughout his thirty - one page introduction to the 1984 edition of Dust Tracks . He describes Hurston's ...
... Hurston's idea , was she not entitled to change her mind ? Hemenway dwells on what he refers to as a pattern of " paradoxes " throughout his thirty - one page introduction to the 1984 edition of Dust Tracks . He describes Hurston's ...
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... Hurston's relationship to her own text : Like the fool of Shakespearean drama , she fawns and flatters , reserving to herself the right to speak difficult truths that her demeanor and role appear to belie . Like the trickster of Afro ...
... Hurston's relationship to her own text : Like the fool of Shakespearean drama , she fawns and flatters , reserving to herself the right to speak difficult truths that her demeanor and role appear to belie . Like the trickster of Afro ...
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