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Author:

Fulton, DoVeanna S., 1967-

Title:

Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery / DoVeanna S. Fulton.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xvi, 164 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women slaves--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American women--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Slave narratives--United States--History and criticism.
Slaves' writings, American--History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.
Autobiography--African American authors.
Feminism and literature--United States.
Oral tradition--United States.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Slavery in literature.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780791466377 (alk. paper)
079146637X (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005006548

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)