"Doers of the word" : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880), Carla L. Peterson

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"Doers of the word" : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880), Carla L. Peterson

Title remainder

African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880)

Statement of responsibility

Carla L. Peterson

Instantiates

• "Doers of the word" : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880)

Publication

• New York, Oxford University Press, 1995

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• "Doers of the word": theorizing African-American women speakers and writers in the antebellum North
• "A sign unto this nation": sojourner truth, history, orature, and modernity
• "Humble instruments in the hands of God": Maria Stewart, Jarena Lee, and the economy of spiritual narrative
• "Coloured tourists": Nancy Prince, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, ethnographic writing, and the question of home
• Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me": the oratorical careers of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Sarah Parker Remond
• "Forced to some experiment": novelization in the writings of Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Seeking the "Writable": Charlotte Forten and the problem of narration
• Home/Nation/Institutions: African-American women and the work of Reconstruction (1863-1880)

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30518589

Dimensions

24 cm

Extent

ix, 284 pages

Isbn

9780195085198

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(alk. paper)

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94017670

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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n

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illustrations

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.b26995293

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(WaOLN)1651330