Belabored professions
Subtitle: narratives of African American working womanhood
By: Xiomara Santamarina.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth; title: The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig; title: Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser; title: Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.