Traces Of A Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women

by Jacqueline Jones Royster

Book Overview

Traces of a Stream offers a unique scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women who formed a new class of women well positioned to use language with consequence, Royster uses interdisciplinary perspectives (literature, history, feminist studies, African American studies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822957256
• ISBN13: 9780822957256
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"