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Author Stover, Johnnie M.

Title Rhetoric and resistance in black women's autobiography / Johnnie M. Stover.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.99287 S889R    Check Shelf
Description 244 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-237) and index.
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.
Subject 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.
ISBN 0813026768 (acid-free paper)
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