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Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women's Oral Slave Narratives

Mattie J. Jackson

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Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts is a critical collection of three women's oral slave narratives, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life , The Story of Mattie J. Jackson , and Sylvia Dubois, A Biography of The Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Her Freedom , that have received little scholarly attention owing both to the oral nature of the texts and the circumstances of their publication and republication. Taken together, these narratives display African American women's discursive practices that subvert oppression, assert agency, and create representations of the past that counter dominant narratives of both slavery and American culture. This volume ensures that twenty-first-century readers hear these voices to not only gain historical knowledge, but also to understand the dynamics of literacy and self-representation, and to locate oral narratives in the spectrum and tradition of African American literary production.

Language: English

Pages: 193

Format: Paperback

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Release: November 20, 2009

ISBN: 1438429649

ISBN 13: 9781438429649

Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women's Oral Slave Narratives

Mattie J. Jackson

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts is a critical collection of three women's oral slave narratives, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life , The Story of Mattie J. Jackson , and Sylvia Dubois, A Biography of The Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Her Freedom , that have received little scholarly attention owing both to the oral nature of the texts and the circumstances of their publication and republication. Taken together, these narratives display African American women's discursive practices that subvert oppression, assert agency, and create representations of the past that counter dominant narratives of both slavery and American culture. This volume ensures that twenty-first-century readers hear these voices to not only gain historical knowledge, but also to understand the dynamics of literacy and self-representation, and to locate oral narratives in the spectrum and tradition of African American literary production.

Language: English

Pages: 193

Format: Paperback

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Release: November 20, 2009

ISBN: 1438429649

ISBN 13: 9781438429649

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