My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the ProfessionsPresents 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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It appears that Jacobs ' sensitivity to public disapproval of her moral character was so strong that she was willing to undermine her own authority by publishing her 115 Oral Narratives as Autobiography.
It appears that Jacobs ' sensitivity to public disapproval of her moral character was so strong that she was willing to undermine her own authority by publishing her 115 Oral Narratives as Autobiography.
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Also , she 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 ...
Also , she 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 ...
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What may be most striking for modern - day readers is the rhetoric of the novel which 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 ...
What may be most striking for modern - day readers is the rhetoric of the novel which 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 ...
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Table des matières
Nine Narratives | 3 |
African | 65 |
Climbing the Ladder of Success from the | 87 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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activities African American women answer appears asked authority autobiography became become beginning brother called career cause course culture daddy didn't discuss early especially example experience fact father felt finished friends girl give grade graduated guess happened high school important interesting interview kind knew language later learned lives look mean mother narrative narrator narrator's never oral parents particular Phi Beta Kappa play position problem question race racism reason remember reported sister situation slave social sometimes sort speak speech story talk teacher teaching tell that's things thought told took town trying voice whole woman writing written young
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| Titre | My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis |
| Auteur | Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis |
| Éditeur | Routledge, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0415905591, 9780415905596 |
| Longueur | 213 pages |
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