Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood / Xiomara Santamarina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santamarina, Xiomara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

African American women--Biography--History and criticism.

African American women.

African American women--Intellectual life--19th century.

African American women in the professions--History.

African American women in the professions.

African American women--Employment--History.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Autobiography--African American authors.

Autobiography.

African American women in literature.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.

Contents:

Race, work, and literary authority in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth

The view from below : menial labor and self-reliance in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig

Enterprising women and the labors of femininity : Eliza Potter, Cincinnati hairdresser

Behind the scenes of Black labor : Elizabeth Keckley and the scandal of publicity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890879110

9780807877005

080787700X

OCLC:

476237455