A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859...
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Author: Eliza Potter
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A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life by Potter, Eliza

A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

¥13,561

A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

¥13,561
Author: Eliza Potter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life. Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women--and she recorded it all in a revelatory book that delighted Cincinnati's gossip columnists at the time. But more important is Potter's portrait of herself as a wage-earning woman, proud of her work, who earned high pay and accumulated quite a bit of money as one of the nation's earliest "beauticians" at a time when most black women worked at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Because her work offered insights into the private lives of elite white women, Potter carved out a literary space that featured a black working woman at the center, rather than at the margins, of the era's transformations in gender, race, and class structure. Xiomara Santamarina provides an insightful introduction to this edition that includes newly discovered information about Potter, discusses the author's strong satirical voice and proud working-class status, and places the narrative in the context of nineteenth-century literature and history.



Author: Eliza Potter
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780807859827


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2010

About the Author
Potter, Eliza: - Eliza Potter (born 1820) was an African-American hairdresser in Cincinnati, Ohio.Santamarina, Xiomara: - Xiomara Santamarina is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is author of Belabored Professions: Autobiography and Black Women's Labor (UNC Press) and several essays on early African American literature.

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