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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... appears to have a chronology in mind ( “ First , I have to start telling you ... " ) that may indeed make the story more understandable or relevant . From another perspective , it may appear that the narrator wanted to tell this ...
... appears to have a chronology in mind ( “ First , I have to start telling you ... " ) that may indeed make the story more understandable or relevant . From another perspective , it may appear that the narrator wanted to tell this ...
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... appears to echo the ideas of the " Cult of True Womanhood " and the archaic formal speech of the period . In the preceding excerpt , which is the beginning of Chapter One of Our Nig , Mag Smith's story , a now familiar prototype of ...
... appears to echo the ideas of the " Cult of True Womanhood " and the archaic formal speech of the period . In the preceding excerpt , which is the beginning of Chapter One of Our Nig , Mag Smith's story , a now familiar prototype of ...
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... appear to belie . Like the trickster of Afro- American folk culture , she speaks with a double tongue . Like the exile ... appears to be two things at once . Yet , for women , especially African American women , living out multiple roles ...
... appear to belie . Like the trickster of Afro- American folk culture , she speaks with a double tongue . Like the exile ... appears to be two things at once . Yet , for women , especially African American women , living out multiple roles ...
Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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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