Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery /
Fulton, DoVeanna S.,1967-
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-157) and index.
Preface: Black feminist orality: identifying a tradition -- Introduction: "So my mother told me": African American women's writing and oral traditions -- Speak sisters, speak: oral empowerment in Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon; The narrative of Sojourner Truth; and Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Tale-baring and dressing out: black women's speech acts that expose torture and abuse by slave mistresses in Our Nig, Sylvia Dubois, and The story of Mattie J. Jackson -- Strategic silence: respectability, gender and protest in Iola Leroy and Contending forces -- "Will the circle be unbroken": (dis)locating love within the legacy of slavery in Their eyes were watching God and Corregidora -- Black girls singing black girls' songs: exploring the wounds of slavery to heal contemporary pain in Beloved, Dessa Rose, Kindred, and The Gilda stories -- Coda: Sister griot-historians: representing events and lives for liberation.
American prose literature
American prose literature
Women slaves
African American women
Slave narratives
Slaves' writings, American
Narration (Rhetoric)
Autobiography
Feminism and literature
Oral tradition
Autobiography
Slavery in literature.