Classic African American women's narratives /

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This book offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography during the slavery era i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Andrews, William L., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors.
American prose literature > Women authors.
Women and literature > United States.
African American women > Biography.
Autobiographies > United States.
Autobiographies > Women authors.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Prose américaine > Auteurs noirs américains.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis.
Noires américaines > Biographies.
Autobiographies > États-Unis.
Narration.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American women
American prose literature > African American authors
American prose literature > Women authors
Autobiographies
Autobiography > Women authors
Women and literature
United States
Litteratur > Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build / Maria W. Stewart
  • The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a coloured lady, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel / Jarena Lee
  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a northern slave / Sojourner Truth
  • "The two offers" / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Our nig; or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North / Harriet E. Wilson
  • Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet A. Jacobs
  • "Life on the sea islands" / Charlotte L. Forten.

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