03726nam 2200805 a 450 991045152580332120200520144314.00-8078-7700-X(CKB)1000000000462081(EBL)413414(OCoLC)476237455(SSID)ssj0000110157(PQKBManifestationID)11131153(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110157(PQKBWorkID)10064234(PQKB)11213508(MiAaPQ)EBC413414(Au-PeEL)EBL413414(CaPaEBR)ebr10273466(CaONFJC)MIL930198(EXLCZ)99100000000046208120050411d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBelabored professions[electronic resource] narratives of African American working womanhood /Xiomara SantamarinaChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20051 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5648-7 0-8078-2981-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.American prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAfrican American womenBiographyHistory and criticismAfrican American womenIntellectual life19th centuryAfrican American women in the professionsHistoryAfrican American womenEmploymentHistoryNarration (Rhetoric)History19th centuryAutobiographyAfrican American authorsAfrican American women in literatureAutobiographyWomen authorsElectronic books.American prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryAfrican American womenHistory and criticism.African American womenIntellectual lifeAfrican American women in the professionsHistory.African American womenEmploymentHistory.Narration (Rhetoric)HistoryAutobiographyAfrican American authors.African American women in literature.AutobiographyWomen authors.818/.408099287/08996073Santamarina Xiomara939141MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451525803321Belabored professions2116916UNINA