We Are Coming The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women

Name: We Are Coming The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women
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ISBN: 9780809321933

ISBN-10: 0809321939

ISBN-13: 9780809321933

Edition: 1999

Authors: Shirley Wilson Logan

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Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900. nbsp; Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era. She analyzes not only speeches but also editorials, essays, and letters. nbsp; Logan first focuses on the prophetic oratory of Maria Stewart, the first American-born black woman to speak publicly. Turning to Frances Harper, she considers speeches that argue for common interests between divergent…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 8/4/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Black Women on the Speaker's Platform, 1832-1900: An Overview



African Origins/American Appropriations: Maria Stewart and "Ethiopia Rising"



"We Are All Bound Up Together": Frances Harper's Converging Communities of Interest



"Out of Their Own Mouths": Ida Wells and the Presence of Lynching



"Women of a Common Country, with Common Interests": Fannie Barrier Williams, Anna Julia Cooper, Identification and Arrangement



"To Embalm Her Memory in Song and Story": Victoria Earle Matthews and Situated Sisterhood



"Can Woman Do This Work?": The Discourse of Racial Uplift


Appendixes



Need of Day Nurseries




Woman's Place in the Work of the Denomination




Colored Women as Wage-Earners




Mothers' Meetings




Address Before the Women's Meeting




Prenatal and Hereditary Influences




Some of the Dangers Confronting Southern Girls in the North




The Future Colored Girl



Notes


Works Cited


Index