By taking as its starting point Sojouner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I women” (1851), commonly recognized as the funding anti-slavery female speech, the paper investigates the sedimentation of some linguistic features in Truth speech and in Rosa Parks autobiography. In particular, the looks at the role played by language in the framework of the intersectional approach (Crenshaw, 1989) which is acknowledged for its potential to map hierarchies of power and priviledge.
“What’s in a name?” (Re)-Languaging Rosa Parks
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2021-01-01
Abstract
By taking as its starting point Sojouner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I women” (1851), commonly recognized as the funding anti-slavery female speech, the paper investigates the sedimentation of some linguistic features in Truth speech and in Rosa Parks autobiography. In particular, the looks at the role played by language in the framework of the intersectional approach (Crenshaw, 1989) which is acknowledged for its potential to map hierarchies of power and priviledge.File in questo prodotto:
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