Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
Davis, Emilie Frances; Whitehead, Karsonya Wise
Language: English
Published by University of South Carolina Press, 2014
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277 pages. Ex-library marks, light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; good shape. The jacket has light creasing and discoloring; wrapped; taped to the covers. Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; ISBN/EAN: 9781611173529. Inventory No: 236456.
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- Title
- Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
- Author
- Davis, Emilie Frances; Whitehead, Karsonya Wise
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1611173523
- ISBN 13
- 9781611173529
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- American History
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 artefact 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 analyses 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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