Speaking power : Black feminist orality in women's narratives of slavery

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-164

  Fulton, DoVeanna S ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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