Speaking Power
Subtitle: Black Feminist Orality In Women's Narratives Of Slavery
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780791466377
Subjects: African studies; Literary Criticism; Biography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Women slaves; History and criticism; Women Authors; American - African American & Black; Feminist; American prose literature; African American authors; United States
First sentence: American slave owners institutionalized prohibitions against slaves reading and writing to prevent slaves from challenging their authority, on the premise that without the ability to read or write slaves could not participate in legal or public discourses.