black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fulton, DoVeanna S.
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- romans, oral history, slavernij, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this book Fulton analyzes the use of oral traditions in African American women’s autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery. African American women have employed oral traditions not only to relate the pain and degradation of slavery, but also to celebrate the subversions, struggles, and triumphs of Black experience. Fulton examines orality as a rhetorical strategy, its role in passing on family and personal history, and its ability to empower, and create representations for the past.