But it’s cozy in her perspective, and she makes it so on person: here, you can talk as much trash as you want and come out feeling like a better person. A Hairdressers Experience in High Life Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature-Eliza Potters 1859. However, like my mom, Eliza just says shit that’s like, no pls stop talking. I think scholarship that consider her use and mapping of space are onto something. Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature, the 1859 autobiography of Eliza Potter, a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women. U must be kitten me? Eliza could describe a dress, spin a tale, and issue some confusing social criticism, just as well as she can absorb you into her point of view, an inarguably Black one. Im paraphrasing, but one critic notably called hairdresser an African American autobiography without any African Americans. As popular narrative journalism, Eliza’s private nature makes sense, but it seems common for modern readers to feel let down by her secrets and ho-hum abolitionism. Called travel writing, autobiography, and social criticism, the form closely follows popular social reporting and travel correspondence in newspapers of the time. Black antebellum hairdresser to the stars combs her way from Cincinnati to France, and into New Orleans, then spills the beans on her clientele in a self-published book.
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