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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I was really very upset about that because I said , “ Well , your honor , I believe that he was telling the truth . " ( 36 : 2 , p . 11 ) Elmira stood her ground in spite of the patronizing attitude of the judge .
I was really very upset about that because I said , “ Well , your honor , I believe that he was telling the truth . " ( 36 : 2 , p . 11 ) Elmira stood her ground in spite of the patronizing attitude of the judge .
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deliberately ambiguous about her birth date " " sacrifices truth to the politics of racial harmony " What reader would be enticed to read a book introduced by such negative language , especially when Henenway concludes on the very last ...
deliberately ambiguous about her birth date " " sacrifices truth to the politics of racial harmony " What reader would be enticed to read a book introduced by such negative language , especially when Henenway concludes on the very last ...
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raises interesting questions about Hurston's relationship to her own text : Like the fool of Shakespearean drama , she fawns and flatters , reserving to herself the right to speak difficult truths that her demeanor and role appear to ...
raises interesting questions about Hurston's relationship to her own text : Like the fool of Shakespearean drama , she fawns and flatters , reserving to herself the right to speak difficult truths that her demeanor and role appear to ...
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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 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
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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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