Speaking Power () von DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor

Preface Black Feminist Orality: Identifying a Tradition
Acknowledgments

Introduction “So my mother told me”: African American Women’s Writing and Oral Traditions

1. Speak Sisters, Speak: Oral Empowerment in Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon; The Narrative of Sojourner Truth; and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

2. Tale-Baring and Dressing Out: Black Women’s Speech Acts That Expose Torture and Abuse by Slave Mistresses in Our Nig, Sylvia Dubois, and The Story of Mattie J. Jackson

3. Strategic Silence: Respectability, Gender, and Protest in Iola Leroy and Contending Forces

4. “Will the circle be unbroken”: (Dis)Locating Love within the Legacy of Slavery in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Corregidora

5. Black Girls Singing Black Girls’ Songs: Exploring the Wounds of Slavery to Heal Contemporary Pain in Beloved, Dessa Rose, Kindred, and The Gilda Stories

Coda Sister Griot-Historians: Representing Events and Lives for Liberation

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