LEADER 04859nam 2200661 450 001 9910823918203321 005 20230126205306.0 010 $a1-61117-353-1 024 7 $a2027/heb32833 035 $a(CKB)2550000001290388 035 $a(OCoLC)881243831 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35535 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001195908 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11652233 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195908 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162722 035 $a(PQKB)10123197 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2054833 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2054833 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10867099 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL604455 035 $a(dli)HEB32833.0001.001 035 $a(MiU)MIU01200000000000000000252 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001290388 100 $a20140519h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNotes from a colored girl $ethe Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis /$fKarsonya Wise Whitehead 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cThe University of South Carolina Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-61117-352-3 311 $a1-306-73204-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: A World Discovered -- Emilie Davis, 1863 -- A World Imagined -- A World Created -- Emilie Davis, 1864 -- A World of Women -- A World Expanded -- Emilie Davis, 1865. 330 2 $a"In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia's free black community in the nineteenth century. Although Davis's daily entries are sparse, brief snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that situate Davis in historical and literary contexts that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women's experiences. Whitehead's contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class. Notes from a Colored Girl is a unique offering to the fields of history and documentary editing as the book includes both a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis's life and a full, heavily annotated edition of her Civil War-era pocket diaries. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis's diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. From a historical perspective, Whitehead re-creates the narrative of Davis's life for those three years and analyzes the black community where she lived and worked. From a literary perspective, Whitehead examines Davis's diary as a socially, racially, and gendered nonfiction text. From a feminist studies perspective, she examines Davis's agency and identity, grounded in theories elaborated by black feminist scholars. And, from linguistic and rhetorical perspectives, she studies Davis's discourse about her interpersonal relationships, her work, and external events in her life in an effort to understand how she used language to construct her social, racial, and gendered identities. Since there are few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis's diary--though ordinary in its content--is rendered extraordinary simply because it has survived to be included in this very small class of resources. Whitehead's extensive analysis illuminates the lives of many through the simple words of one"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 615 0$aAfrican Americans 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 676 $a974.8/1103092 686 $aHIS036050$aSOC028000$aSOC001000$2bisacsh 700 $aWhitehead$b Karsonya Wise$01648962 701 2$aDavis$b Emilie Frances$f1838-1899.$01648963 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823918203321 996 $aNotes from a colored girl$93997426 997 $aUNINA