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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... metaphors of a narrator's past . Unlike other modes of inquiry that only may provide glimpses of disconnected parts of a person's life , oral narrative offers an intimate perspective of a narrator's interpretation and understanding of ...
... metaphors of a narrator's past . Unlike other modes of inquiry that only may provide glimpses of disconnected parts of a person's life , oral narrative offers an intimate perspective of a narrator's interpretation and understanding of ...
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... 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 , “ Recollections of a Happy Life " ( 3 ) and proceeds to tell the ...
... 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 , “ Recollections of a Happy Life " ( 3 ) and proceeds to tell the ...
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... metaphors , and oblique allusions to sexual transgressions : As she merged into womanhood , unprotected , uncherished , un- cared for , there fell on her ear the music of love , awakening an intensity of emotion long dormant . . . She ...
... metaphors , and oblique allusions to sexual transgressions : As she merged into womanhood , unprotected , uncherished , un- cared for , there fell on her ear the music of love , awakening an intensity of emotion long dormant . . . She ...
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
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