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

Fulton Minor, DoVeanna S. (EDT)/ Pitts, Reginald H. (EDT)

State University of New York Press（2009/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 332 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438429649
• DDC分類 306.3620922

Full Description

Critical edition of three women's oral slave narratives.

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 (1861), The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866), and Sylvia Dubois, A Biography of The Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Her Freedom (1883), 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.

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: African American Women's Voices Raised for Freedom

CHRONOLOGY OF LOUISA PICQUET
Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life (1861)
Hiram Mattison

CHRONOLOGY OF MATTIE J. JACKSON
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson(1866)
L. S. Thompson

CHRONOLOGY OF SYLVIA DUBOIS
Sylvia Dubois (Now 116 Years Old), A Biography of the Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Her Freedom(Translation of C. W. Larison's original phonetic text)

Silvia Dubois (Now 116 Yers Old), A Biografy of The Slav Who Whipt Her Mistress and Gand Her Fredom(1883) (Facsimile)
C. W. Larison