Speaking Power
Subtitle: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780791466384
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women Authors; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Slavery; USA; American - African American & Black; Feminist; American - African American; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
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.