In the discussion of Maria Steward ( first black woman writer and first woman political speaker) we find that her writing can be classified according to the model Black Jeremiad
The characteristics of this model include:
i) citing the promise of equality
ii) criticism of the present situation and its failure to live upto the promise
iii) society will redeem the promise
Steward's writing whose audience incudes white and black women, mothers and daughters as well as humanitarianists and God gives voice to her political ideas using a number of forms and a continualy changing tone.
The forms she uses include an oratorical manner of writing, the I- conversion narrative, rhetorcial questions, testimonies and autobiography. These techniques present to the reader a rich myriad of the problems that so many sections of society in particular women are facing and the struggle that must be undertaken to make a positive difference in this situation.
- Dione Joseph
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