Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood
by
Santamarina, Xiomara.
Title
:
Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood
Author
:
Santamarina, Xiomara.
Personal Author
:
Santamarina, Xiomara.
Publication Information
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
Physical Description
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xiv, 222 p. : ill.
Contents
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Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth -- The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser -- Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.
Subject Term
:
American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African American women -- Biography -- History and criticism.
African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
African American women in the professions -- History.
African American women -- Employment -- History.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
Autobiography -- African American authors.
African American women in literature.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Corporate Author
:
ProQuest (Firm)
Electronic Access
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| Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Shelf Location | Holding Information |
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| PS366 .A35 S26 2005 | 949111-1001 | Ebook Central | Ebook Central | |