Fulton Minor Speaking Power

Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8231-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Analyzes Black women’s rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fulton Minor, DoVeanna S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Black Feminist Orality: Identifying a Tradition
Acknowledgments
Introduction “So my mother told me”: African American Women’s Writing and Oral Traditions
1. Speak Sisters, Speak: Oral Empowerment in Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon; The Narrative of Sojourner Truth; and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
2. Tale-Baring and Dressing Out: Black Women’s Speech Acts That Expose Torture and Abuse by Slave Mistresses in Our Nig, Sylvia Dubois, and The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
3. Strategic Silence: Respectability, Gender, and Protest in Iola Leroy and Contending Forces
4. “Will the circle be unbroken”: (Dis)Locating Love within the Legacy of Slavery in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Corregidora
5. Black Girls Singing Black Girls’ Songs: Exploring the Wounds of Slavery to Heal Contemporary Pain in Beloved, Dessa Rose, Kindred, and The Gilda Stories
Coda Sister Griot-Historians: Representing Events and Lives for Liberation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

DoVeanna S. Fulton is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University.