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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1850; edited by Frances W. Titus, 1853. (E-Text)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth. edited by Olive Gilbert. Salem, N.H.: Ayer Co., 1988. E185.97 .T882

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Alliaume, Karen T. "The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist/Womanist Figures of Jesus." Cross Currents 48.2 (Sumr 1998): 198-217.

Bernard, Jacqueline. Journey toward freedom; the story of Sojourner Truth. NY: Norton, 1967. Juv / Biog T874 b

Campbell, Karlyn K. "Style and Content in the Rhetoric of Early Afro-American Feminists." Quarterly Journal of Speech 72.4 (Nov 1986): 434-45.

Crosthwaite, Jane. "Women and Wild Beasts: Versions of the Exotic in Nineteenth-Century American Art." Southern Humanities Review 19.2 (Sprg 1985): 97-114.

Fitch, Suzanne P., and Roseann M. Mandziuk. Sojourner Truth as orator: wit, story, and song. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1997. E185.97 .T8 A5

Humez, Jean M. "Reading The Narrative of Sojourner Truth as a Collaborative Text." Frontiers 16.1 (1996): 29-52.

Johnson, Paul E., and Sean Wilentz. The kingdom of Matthias. NY: Oxford UP, 1994. BR1718 .M3 J64

Krieg, Joann P. "Whitman and Sojourner Truth." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 16.1 (Sumr 1998): 32-36.

Lebedun, Jean. "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Interest in Sojourner Truth, Black Feminist." American Literature 46 (1974): 359-63.

Lipscomb, Drema R. "Sojourner Truth: A Practical Public Discourse." Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. 227-45.

Lipscomb, Drema R. "A Rhetoric of Transformation: Representation and Reconstruction of Race in Nineteenth Century African American Feminist Discourse." DAI 57.10 (Apr 1997): DA9708922.

Mabee, Carleton, and Susan M. Newhouse. Sojourner Truth--slave, prophet, legend. NY: New York UP, 1993. E185.97 .T8 M32

Massa, Suzanne H. "Sojourner Truth (1797, 1800? 1883)." African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 418-23.

| Top | McKissack, Pat, and Fredrick McKissack. Sojourner Truth: ain't I a woman? NY: Scholastic, 1992. Juv / Biog T874 m

Ortiz, Victoria. Sojourner Truth, a self-made woman. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974. Juv / Biog T874 o

Painter, Nell I. "Difference, Slavery, and Memory: Sojourner Truth in Feminist Abolitionism." The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Eds. Jean F. Yellin and John C. Van Horne. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994. 139-58.

- - -. "Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth's Knowing and Becoming Known." Journal of American History 81.2 (Sep 1994): 461-92.

- - -. Sojourner Truth: a life, a symbol. NY: W.W. Norton, 1996. E185.97 .T8 P35

- - -. "Sojourner Truth's Religion in Her Moment of Pentecostalism and Witchcraft." Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America. Ed. Elizabeth Reis. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998. 145-55.

Rockwell, Anne F. Only passing through: the story of Sojourner Truth. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Juv / Biog T874 r

Roethler, Jacque. "Three Phases of the Black Aesthetic Ann Petry's Tituba of Salem Village, Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little's Childtimes and Patricia McKissack's Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman." Journal of African Children's and Youth Literature 6 (1994-95): 56-73.

Sachez-Eppler, Karen. "Ain't I a Symbol." American Quarterly 50.1 (Mar 1998): 149-57.

Stetson, Erlene, and Linda David. Glorying in tribulation: the lifework of Sojourner Truth. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1994. E185.97 .T8 S74

Terry, Esther. "Sojourner Truth: The Person behind the Libyan Sibyl." Massachusetts Review 26.2-3 (Sumr-Autm 1985): 425-44.

Yellin, Jean F. Women & Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

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