Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood

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Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood

Title:

Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood

Author:

Santamarina, Xiomara.

Personal Author:

Santamarina, Xiomara.

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

xiv, 222 p. : ill.

Contents:

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.