Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery

Analyzes Black women's rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.

In Speaking Power, DoVeanna S. Fulton explores and analyzes the use of oral traditions in African American women's autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery. African American women have consistently employed oral traditions not only to relate the pain and degradation of slavery, but also to celebrate the subversions, struggles, and triumphs of Black experience. Fulton examine...