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• catalog abstract "Adapting a verse from the Epistle of James - "doers of the word"--Nineteenth-century black women activists Sojourner Truth, Jarena Lee, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, among others, travelled throughout the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwestern regions of the United States. They preached, lectured, and wrote on issues of religious evangelicism, abolition, racial uplift, moral reform, temperance, and women's rights, thereby defining themselves as public intellectuals. In situating these women within the emerging African-American urban communities of the free North, Doers of the Word provides an important counterweight to the vast scholarship on Southern slavery and argues that black "Civil Rights movements" cannot be seen as a purely modern phenomenon. In particular, the book examines the ways in which this Northern black population, despite its heterogeneity, came together and established social organizations that would facilitate community empowerment; yet Peterson's analysis also acknowledges, and seeks to explain, the highly complex relationship of black women to these institutions, a relationship that rendered their stance as public intellectuals all the more bold and defiant. Peterson begins her study in the 1830s, when a substantial body of oratory and writing by black women first emerged, and traces the development of this writing through the shifting political climate up to the end of Reconstruction. She builds her analyses upon Foucault's interdisciplinary model of discourse with an explicitly feminist approach, drawing upon sermons, spiritual autobiographies, travel and slave narratives, journalism, essays, poetry, speeches, and fiction. From these, Peterson is able to answer several key questions. First, what empowered these women to act, to speak out, and to write? Why, and in what ways, were they marginalized within both the African-American and larger American communities? Where did they act, speak, and write from? How did they negotiate the power relations of sexism and racism in their work? And, lastly, how might one distinguish between their social action and its literary representation? In seeking to answer these questions, Peterson herself may be seen as a "doer of the word," carrying forward the legacy of these nineteenth-century black women activists.".
• catalog contributor b7472820.
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description ""Doers of the word": theorizing African-American women speakers and writers in the antebellum North -- "A sign unto this nation": sojourner truth, history, orature, and modernity -- "Humble instruments in the hands of God": Maria Stewart, Jarena Lee, and the economy of spiritual narrative -- "Coloured tourists": Nancy Prince, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, ethnographic writing, and the question of home -- Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me": the oratorical careers of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Sarah Parker Remond -- "Forced to some experiment": novelization in the writings of Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Seeking the "Writable": Charlotte Forten and the problem of narration -- Home/Nation/Institutions: African-American women and the work of Reconstruction (1863-1880).".
• catalog description "Adapting a verse from the Epistle of James - "doers of the word"--Nineteenth-century black women activists Sojourner Truth, Jarena Lee, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, among others, travelled throughout the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwestern regions of the United States. They preached, lectured, and wrote on issues of religious evangelicism, abolition, racial uplift, moral reform, temperance, and women's rights, thereby defining themselves as public intellectuals. In situating these women within the emerging African-American urban communities of the free North, Doers of the Word provides an important counterweight to the vast scholarship on Southern slavery and argues that black "Civil Rights movements" cannot be seen as a purely modern phenomenon.".
• catalog description "In particular, the book examines the ways in which this Northern black population, despite its heterogeneity, came together and established social organizations that would facilitate community empowerment; yet Peterson's analysis also acknowledges, and seeks to explain, the highly complex relationship of black women to these institutions, a relationship that rendered their stance as public intellectuals all the more bold and defiant.".
• catalog description "In seeking to answer these questions, Peterson herself may be seen as a "doer of the word," carrying forward the legacy of these nineteenth-century black women activists.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.".
• catalog description "Peterson begins her study in the 1830s, when a substantial body of oratory and writing by black women first emerged, and traces the development of this writing through the shifting political climate up to the end of Reconstruction. She builds her analyses upon Foucault's interdisciplinary model of discourse with an explicitly feminist approach, drawing upon sermons, spiritual autobiographies, travel and slave narratives, journalism, essays, poetry, speeches, and fiction. From these, Peterson is able to answer several key questions. First, what empowered these women to act, to speak out, and to write? Why, and in what ways, were they marginalized within both the African-American and larger American communities? Where did they act, speak, and write from? How did they negotiate the power relations of sexism and racism in their work? And, lastly, how might one distinguish between their social action and its literary representation?".
• catalog extent "ix, 284 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195085191 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Race and American culture".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Northeastern States".
• catalog spatial "Northeastern States.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "810.9/355 20".
• catalog subject "African American women Intellectual life 19th century.".
• catalog subject "African American women in literature.".
• catalog subject "African American women social reformers Northeastern States.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Social conditions 19th century.".
• catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
• catalog subject "American prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American prose literature African American authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American prose literature Northeastern States History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American prose literature Women authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "PS153.N5 P443 1995".
• catalog subject "Race in literature.".
• catalog subject "Social problems United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents ""Doers of the word": theorizing African-American women speakers and writers in the antebellum North -- "A sign unto this nation": sojourner truth, history, orature, and modernity -- "Humble instruments in the hands of God": Maria Stewart, Jarena Lee, and the economy of spiritual narrative -- "Coloured tourists": Nancy Prince, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, ethnographic writing, and the question of home -- Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me": the oratorical careers of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Sarah Parker Remond -- "Forced to some experiment": novelization in the writings of Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Seeking the "Writable": Charlotte Forten and the problem of narration -- Home/Nation/Institutions: African-American women and the work of Reconstruction (1863-1880).".
• catalog title "Doers of the word : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880) / Carla L. Peterson.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".