Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-157) and index.
Contents:
Preface: Black feminist orality: identifying a tradition -- Introduction: "So my mother told me": African American women's writing and oral traditions -- Speak sisters, speak: oral empowerment in Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon; The narrative of Sojourner Truth; and Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- 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 -- Strategic silence: respectability, gender and protest in Iola Leroy and Contending forces -- "Will the circle be unbroken": (dis)locating love within the legacy of slavery in Their eyes were watching God and Corregidora -- 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.
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