Belabored professions narratives of African American working womanhood / [electronic resource] :
Xiomara Santamarina.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- xiv, 222 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism. American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism. American prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century Women and literature--History--United States--19th century. African American women--History and criticism.--Biography 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.