Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts (eBook, PDF)

Three African American Women's Oral Slave Narratives
Redaktion: Fulton Minor, Doveanna S.; Pitts, Reginald H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts is a critical collection of three women's oral slave narratives, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life (1861), The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866), and Sylvia Dubois, A Biography of The Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Her Freedom (1883), that have received little scholarly attention owing both to the oral nature of the texts and the circumstances of their publication and republication. Taken together, these narratives display African American women's discursive practices that subvert oppression, assert agency, and create representations of the past that counter dominant narratives of both slavery and American culture. This volume ensures that twenty-first-century readers "hear" these voices to not only gain historical knowledge, but also to understand the dynamics of literacy and self-representation, and to locate oral narratives in the spectrum and tradition of African American literary production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438429663
• Artikelnr.: 60500766

Autorenporträt

DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor is Associate Professor and Chair of Women's Studies and Director of African American Studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery, also published by SUNY Press. Reginald H. Pitts is Associate Editor, Clarence Mitchell Jr. Papers. He is the coeditor (with P. Gabrielle Foreman) of Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.