{"product_id":"speaking-power","title":"Speaking Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzes Black women's rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSpeaking Power,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 examines orality as a rhetorical strategy, its role in passing on family and personal history, and its ability to empower, subvert oppression, assert agency, and create representations for the past. In addition to taking an insightful look at obscure or little-studied slave narratives like \u003ci\u003eLouisa Picquet, the Octoroon\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNarrative of Sojourner Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, Fulton also brings a fresh perspective to more familiar works, such as Harriet Jacobs's \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and Harriet Wilson's \u003ci\u003eOur Nig, \u003c\/i\u003eand highlights Black feminist orality in such works as Zora Neale Hurston's \u003ci\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/i\u003e and Gayl Jones's \u003ci\u003eCorregidora.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410532782424,"sku":"9780791466384","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780791466384_fe9e78e6-f74f-4f12-b4e1-48af1b8517f5.jpg?v=1777897811","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/speaking-power","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}