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

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) : illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-210) and index Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century African American women -- Biography -- History and criticism African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century African American women in the professions -- History African American women -- Employment -- History Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century Autobiography -- African American authors. African American women in literature. Autobiography -- Women authors. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Women authors African American women -- Biography African American women -- Employment African American women in literature African American women in the professions African American women -- Intellectual life American prose literature American prose literature -- African American authors American prose literature -- Women authors Autobiography -- African American authors Autobiography -- Women authors Narration (Rhetoric) Women and literature Schwarze Frau Autobiografie Arbeit Motiv United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2005010229 ISBN 9780807829813 0807829811 080787700X 9780807877005

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