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Belabored professions [electronic resource] : narratives of African American working womanhood / Xiomara Santamarina.

By: Santamarina, Xiomara.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005Description: xiv, 222 p. : ill.Subject(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 authorsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 818/.408099287/08996073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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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.

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