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Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santamarina, Xiomara
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.