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Rhetoric and resistance in Black women's autobiography /

Main Author: Stover, Johnnie M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
African American women > Biography > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Autobiography > African American authors.
Women and literature > United States.
African American women in literature.
Autobiography > Women authors.
American prose literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American women > Biography.
American prose literature > African American authors.
American prose literature > Women authors.
United States.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=174263
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Life-writing and subversion
  • Autobiography, authorship, and authority
  • Black women autobiographers' encounter with gender, race, and class
  • A patchwork of cultures : journeys of African American women autobiographers
  • The emergence of an African American mother tongue
  • Subtle resistance in Our Nig, Incidents, Behind the scenes, and Reminiscences
  • Allusion as hidden discourse in Black women's autobiography
  • Flagrant resistance, and punishment be damned
  • Linkages : continuation of a tradition
  • Afterword : Piecing it all together.

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