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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... Meaning is conveyed largely by context and role of the character . The narrator's use of omission and indirect speech ( “ old , sort of [ redneck ] , ” “ almost a redneck " ) may have been an attempt to politely describe an ugly racial ...
... Meaning is conveyed largely by context and role of the character . The narrator's use of omission and indirect speech ( “ old , sort of [ redneck ] , ” “ almost a redneck " ) may have been an attempt to politely describe an ugly racial ...
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... means of distancing . Sensitive or intensely emo- tional situations such as a family secret or hurt feelings may ... meaning than is apparent initially : ( b ) by the African American community . ( c ) by a missionary . ( e ) by a white ...
... means of distancing . Sensitive or intensely emo- tional situations such as a family secret or hurt feelings may ... meaning than is apparent initially : ( b ) by the African American community . ( c ) by a missionary . ( e ) by a white ...
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... mean small . However , " little voice " may mean high pitched or low rather than small . “ Little man ” used twice may mean small , but it also may well be another understate- ment . Even though Dr. Carver may have been small in stature ...
... mean small . However , " little voice " may mean high pitched or low rather than small . “ Little man ” used twice may mean small , but it also may well be another understate- ment . Even though Dr. Carver may have been small in stature ...
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