04394nam 2200829Ia 450 991080976550332120200520144314.00-7914-8231-61-4237-5575-8(CKB)1000000000460402(OCoLC)64560547(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579263(SSID)ssj0000249463(PQKBManifestationID)11216434(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249463(PQKBWorkID)10227323(PQKB)11220789(MiAaPQ)EBC3407840(MdBmJHUP)muse6361(Au-PeEL)EBL3407840(CaPaEBR)ebr10579263(DE-B1597)681753(DE-B1597)9780791482315(EXLCZ)99100000000046040220050307d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSpeaking power Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery /DoVeanna S. Fulton1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20061 online resource (182 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6637-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-157) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Black Feminist Orality Identifying a Tradition -- Acknowledgments -- "So my mother told me" -- Speak Sisters, Speak -- Tale-Baring and Dressing Out -- Strategic Silence -- "Will the circle be unbroken" -- Black Girls Singing Black Girls' Songs -- Sister Griot-Historians -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn Speaking Power, DoVeanna S. Fulton explores and analyzes the use of oral traditions in African American women's autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery. African American women have consistently employed oral traditions not only to relate the pain and degradation of slavery, but also to celebrate the subversions, struggles, and triumphs of Black experience. Fulton examines orality as a rhetorical strategy, its role in passing on family and personal history, and its ability to empower, subvert oppression, assert agency, and create representations for the past. In addition to taking an insightful look at obscure or little-studied slave narratives like Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon and the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Fulton also brings a fresh perspective to more familiar works, such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, and highlights Black feminist orality in such works as Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Gayl Jones's Corregidora.American prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen slavesUnited StatesBiographyHistory and criticismAfrican American womenBiographyHistory and criticismSlave narrativesUnited StatesHistory and criticismSlaves' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismNarration (Rhetoric)History19th centuryAutobiographyAfrican American authorsFeminism and literatureUnited StatesOral traditionUnited StatesAutobiographyWomen authorsSlavery in literatureAmerican prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women slavesHistory and criticism.African American womenHistory and criticism.Slave narrativesHistory and criticism.Slaves' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Narration (Rhetoric)HistoryAutobiographyAfrican American authors.Feminism and literatureOral traditionAutobiographyWomen authors.Slavery in literature.818/.08Fulton DoVeanna S.1967-1599079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809765503321Speaking power3921632UNINA