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Foster, F. S. (1985). Adding Color and Contour to Early American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women. In M. Pryse, & H. J. Spillers (Eds.), Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

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• TITLE: Travel as Subversion in 19th Century Black Women’s Narratives

  AUTHORS: Joyce Hope Scott

  KEYWORDS: Black Women, Agency, Liminality, Transnational, Travel, Subversion, Narrative, Transgression, Travel/Travelers, Imperialism and Female Agency

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Literary Study, Vol.5 No.4, October 25, 2017

  ABSTRACT: Race and gender proved to be two daunting obstacles for African American and Afro-Caribbean women in the 19th century; thus success outside those domains often depended on women’s ability to keep a strong feminist stance. Prescribed female roles and racial prejudice hindered many in their ambitions and endeavors. This paper argues that some 19th century black women’s narratives, however, point to a body of resistance texts in contention with prescribed roles for such women. The textual personas of such narratives transcend the confines of home and racially-configured communities. In fact, the narratives foreground a female agency where personal worth and identities are reconstructed through traveling and working in the global arenas and economies of the 19th century world.