Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Santamarina, Xiomara
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Subjects:	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 > Biography > 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.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

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.