Belabored professions [electronic resource] : narratives of African American working womanhood / Xiomara Santamarina.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 222 p. : illSubject(s): - 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
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- PS366.A35 S26 2005eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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