Unruly tongue
identity and voice in American women's writing, 1850-1930
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Author
Publication
1999 - University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi
Language
English
Word Count
57,000 words, Guess
Page Count
228 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL374319M
- ISBN-101578060850
- OCLC Control Number42330025
- OCLC Control Number39539272
- OCLC Control Numberunrulytongueiden0000cutt
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98036109
- Goodreads4950641
- LibraryThing6374651
Classifications
- DDC813/.4099287
- LCCPS374.F45 C87 1999
Description
"Women should be seen and not heard" was a well-known maxim in the nineteenth century. In a society perceiving that language was for the province of male, white speakers, how did women writers find a voice? In Unruly Tongue Martha J. Cutter answers this question with works by ten African American and Anglo American women who wrote between 1850 and 1930. She shows that female writers in this period perceived how male-centered and racist ideas on language had silenced them. By adopting voices that are maternal, feminine, and ethnic, they broke the link between masculinity and voice and created new forms of language that empowered them and their female characters.
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