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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777524603321

Autore

Santamarina Xiomara

Titolo

Belabored professions [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of African American working womanhood / / Xiomara Santamarina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

979-88-908791-1-0

0-8078-7700-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

818/.408099287/08996073

Soggetti

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 - 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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and



defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.