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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817789103321

Titolo

Classic African American women's narratives / / edited by William L. Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-028646-6

1-280-48163-3

9786610481637

1-4294-1516-9

1-282-36735-8

9786612367359

0-19-530263-X

0-19-803241-2

1-60256-762-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p. ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

AndrewsWilliam L. <1946->

Disciplina

818/.308099287/08996073

Soggetti

American prose literature - African American authors

American prose literature - Women authors

Women and literature - United States

African American women

Autobiographies - United States

Autobiographies - Women authors

Narration (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TEXTS -- 1 MARIA W. STEWART (1831): Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build -- 2 JARENA LEE (1836): The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, A Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel -- 3 SOJOURNER TRUTH (1850): Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave -- 4 FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1859): "The Two Offers -- 5 HARRIET E. WILSON (1859): Our Nig -- or, Sketches from the Life of a



Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North -- 6 HARRIET A. JACOBS (1861): Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 7 CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN (1864): "Life on the Sea Islands.

Sommario/riassunto

This text is a one-volume compilation of the best and the best-known fictional, autobiographical and journalistic writing by African American women during the first great era of black women's writing in the US, from 1831 to 1865.