LEADER 04394nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910809765503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8231-6 010 $a1-4237-5575-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460402 035 $a(OCoLC)64560547 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000249463 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11216434 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249463 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10227323 035 $a(PQKB)11220789 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407840 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6361 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407840 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579263 035 $a(DE-B1597)681753 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791482315 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460402 100 $a20050307d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpeaking power $eBlack feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery /$fDoVeanna S. Fulton 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6637-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-157) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tBlack Feminist Orality Identifying a Tradition -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t"So my mother told me" -- $tSpeak Sisters, Speak -- $tTale-Baring and Dressing Out -- $tStrategic Silence -- $t"Will the circle be unbroken" -- $tBlack Girls Singing Black Girls' Songs -- $tSister Griot-Historians -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen slaves$zUnited States$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American women$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlave narratives$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlaves' writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors 606 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States 606 $aOral tradition$zUnited States 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors 606 $aSlavery in literature 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen slaves$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlave narratives$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlaves' writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors. 615 0$aFeminism and literature 615 0$aOral tradition 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 676 $a818/.08 700 $aFulton$b DoVeanna S.$f1967-$01599079 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809765503321 996 $aSpeaking power$93921632 997 $aUNINA