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 is a collaborative transaction that reconstructs a life once lived ; and it is a text that makes relevant to the present metaphors of a narrator's past . Unlike other modes of inquiry that only may provide glimpses of disconnected ...
It is a collaborative transaction that reconstructs a life once lived ; and it is a text that makes relevant to the present metaphors of a narrator's past . Unlike other modes of inquiry that only may provide glimpses of disconnected ...
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Survivors of severe oppression such as slavery may employ metaphors and other kinds of indirect language to disguise / buffer the remembered pain . As a case in point , Annie Burton entitles the first section of her narrative ...
Survivors of severe oppression such as slavery may employ metaphors and other kinds of indirect language to disguise / buffer the remembered pain . As a case in point , Annie Burton entitles the first section of her narrative ...
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Meaning was submerged in euphemisms , metaphors , and oblique allusions to sexual transgressions : As she merged into womanhood , unprotected , uncherished , uncared for , there fell on her ear the music of love , awakening an intensity ...
Meaning was submerged in euphemisms , metaphors , and oblique allusions to sexual transgressions : As she merged into womanhood , unprotected , uncherished , uncared for , there fell on her ear the music of love , awakening an intensity ...
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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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