JOURNAL ARTICLE

Stitching Myself Together: Sojourner Truth and Making a Self.

  • Published In: Callaloo, 2024, v. 42, n. 3. P. 243 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Foster-Singletary, Tikenya 3 of 3

Abstract

Sojourner Truth presents a self that belies the ideas imposed on her—ideas about female frailty and the defeminization of black female bodies. Nevertheless, depictions of Truth knitting further imply the tenuous juncture that she highlights in her speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" The association of knitting with typical femininity and womanhood allows Truth to use her image to "read" femininity, literacy, and the act of making a self. By disrupting the assumed associations between whiteness and constructions of gender, she conveys that she both understands and challenges them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Callaloo. 2024/07, Vol. 42, Issue 3, p243
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Biography
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0161-2492
  • DOI:10.1353/cal.2024.a947940
  • Accession Number:181923723
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