Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-8597
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2010
Publication Title
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture
Volume
10
Issue
3
First Page
511
Last Page
533
Abstract
If there is a canon of American women’s rhetoric, Sojourner Truth’s speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” is a central text in that collection. Truth’s “Ain’t/Aren’t I a Woman?” speech is included regularly in anthologies of women’s literature, anthologies of women’s rhetoric, and textbooks on history and women’s studies throughout all levels of the curriculum. The version of Truth’s speech that is typically anthologized, transcribed by Frances Gage twelve years after Truth delivered it, communicates an intentionally feminist message.
Recommended Citation
Kay Siebler; Far from the Truth: Teaching the Politics of Sojourner Truth's “Ain't I a Woman?”. Pedagogy 1 October 2010; 10 (3): 511–533. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2010-005
Comments
© 2010 by Duke University Press
This is the accepted manuscript that was published by Duke University Press in Pedagogy on October 1, 2010 and is available at https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2010-005