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Notes from a colored girl :

(Number (ISBN

1306732042

(Number (ISBN

1611173531

(Number (ISBN

9781306732048

(Number (ISBN

9781611173536

Erroneous ISBN

1611173523

Erroneous ISBN

9781611173529

Title Proper

Notes from a colored girl :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis /

First Statement of Responsibility

Karsonya Wise Whitehead.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Columbia, South Carolina :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of South Carolina Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2014]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Women's diaries and letters of the South

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

A world discovered -- Emilie Davis, 1863 -- A world imagined -- A world created -- Emilie Davis, 1864 -- A world of women -- A world expanded -- Emilie Davis, 1865 -- A world where things are well -- Who's who.

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"In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia's free black community in the nineteenth century. Although Davis's daily entries are sparse, brief snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that situate Davis in historical and literary contexts that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women's experiences. Whitehead's contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class. Notes from a Colored Girl is a unique offering to the fields of history and documentary editing as the book includes both a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis's life and a full, heavily annotated edition of her Civil War-era pocket diaries. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis's diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. From a historical perspective, Whitehead re-creates the narrative of Davis's life for those three years and analyzes the black community where she lived and worked. From a literary perspective, Whitehead examines Davis's diary as a socially, racially, and gendered nonfiction text. From a feminist studies perspective, she examines Davis's agency and identity, grounded in theories elaborated by black feminist scholars. And, from linguistic and rhetorical perspectives, she studies Davis's discourse about her interpersonal relationships, her work, and external events in her life in an effort to understand how she used language to construct her social, racial, and gendered identities. Since there are few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis's diary--though ordinary in its content--is rendered extraordinary simply because it has survived to be included in this very small class of resources. Whitehead's extensive analysis illuminates the lives of many through the simple words of one"--

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JSTOR

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MIL

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OverDrive, Inc.

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22573/ctv6vskv0

Stock Number

604455

Stock Number

9864A38F-4EB2-4A30-874B-4FC71F40AF56

Title

Notes from a colored girl

International Standard Book Number

9781611173529

Davis, Emilie Frances,1838-1899

Davis, Emilie Frances,1838-1899

Davis, Emilie Frances,1838-1899.

African Americans-- Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia-- History-- 19th century.

African Americans-- Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia, Biography.

African Americans.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

HISTORY-- United States-- Civil War Period (1850-1877)

HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- General.

HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Race relations.

Social conditions.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Women's Studies.

Philadelphia (Pa.), History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Philadelphia (Pa.), Race relations, History, 19th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.), Social conditions, 19th century.

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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BIO-- 006000

HIS-- 036010

HIS-- 036050

HIS-- 036080

HIS-- 036100

SOC-- 001000

SOC-- 028000

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Book number

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Whitehead, Karsonya Wise.

Davis, Emilie Frances,1838-1899.

Date of Transaction

20200823045920.0

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