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Article: Johnnie M. Stover. Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography.(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- September 22, 2005
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Johnnie M. Stover. Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2003. 244 pp. $55.00.
In the introduction to Rhetoric and Resistance, Johnnie M. Stover writes, "The flexible, versatile African American mother tongue gives her story and its form literary uniqueness" (13). Assessing the genesis, viability and, yes, uniqueness of the mother tongue is Stover's aim in this text. Through an examination of four primary works--Harriet Wilson's Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There (1859); Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave ...