Belabored professions [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of African American working womanhood / / Xiomara Santamarina
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Santamarina Xiomara
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| Titolo: |
Belabored professions [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of African American working womanhood / / Xiomara Santamarina
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 818/.408099287/08996073 |
| Soggetto topico: | American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
| American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century | |
| African American women - History and criticism | |
| African American women - Intellectual life - 19th century | |
| African American women in the professions - History | |
| African American women - Employment - History | |
| Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century | |
| Autobiography - African American authors | |
| African American women in literature | |
| Autobiography - Women authors | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Belabored professions |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-7700-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451525803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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