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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... abolitionist , and friend of Jacobs . In fact , Yellin observed that " by the 20th century both Jacobs and her book were forgotten " ( xxv ) . So Jacobs spoke to her audience through a slave narrator named Linda Brent and not her own ...
... abolitionist , and friend of Jacobs . In fact , Yellin observed that " by the 20th century both Jacobs and her book were forgotten " ( xxv ) . So Jacobs spoke to her audience through a slave narrator named Linda Brent and not her own ...
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... abolitionist impact . Thus , it is obvious that Louisa's voice no longer can be heard after Chapter XVII . In earlier chapters , her voice was fairly free of editorial comments and marked only with quotation marks . However , in Chapter ...
... abolitionist impact . Thus , it is obvious that Louisa's voice no longer can be heard after Chapter XVII . In earlier chapters , her voice was fairly free of editorial comments and marked only with quotation marks . However , in Chapter ...
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... abolitionists like Mattison : The darkest and most prominent feature of the whole narrative is the deep moral corruption which it reveals in the families con- cerned , resulting from the institution of slavery . ( 50 ) Thus it is that ...
... abolitionists like Mattison : The darkest and most prominent feature of the whole narrative is the deep moral corruption which it reveals in the families con- cerned , resulting from the institution of slavery . ( 50 ) Thus it is that ...
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