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Author:

Santamarina, Xiomara.

Title:

Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood / Xiomara Santamarina.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xiv, 222 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
African American women--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American women--Intellectual life--19th century.
African American women in the professions--History.
African American women--History.--History.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.
Autobiography--African American authors.
African American women in literature.
Autobiography--Women authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-210) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity. 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.

ISBN:

9780807856482 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807856487 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807829813 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807829811 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)59147986

LCCN:

2005010229

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)