Traces of a stream
Subtitle: literacy and social change among African American women
By: Jacqueline Jones Royster.
Series: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- United States; African American women -- Education -- Social aspects; African Americans -- Education; Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States; African American women -- Social conditions; Language and culture -- United States; Literacy -- United States
Description: "Traces of a Stream is a showcase for nineteenth-century African American women, and particularly elite women, as a group of writers who are currently underrepresented in rhetorical scholarship. Royster has formulated both an analytical theory and an ideological perspective that are useful in gaining a more generative understanding of literate practices as a whole and the practices of African American women in particular.

She calls for alternative ways of seeing, reading, and rendering scholarship as she seeks to establish a more suitable place for the contributions and achievements of these writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-325) and index.