Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Deborah M Garfield

Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Deborah M Garfield

Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship which will take its place as the primary resource for students and teachers of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars such as Jean Fagan Yellin (biographer and editor of the annotated edition of Incidents), Frances Smith Foster, Donald Gibson, and emerging critics Sandra Gunning, P. Gabrielle Foreman, and Anita Goldman. The essays take on a variety of subjects in Incidents, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles. The chapters contextualise both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art; all endeavour to be accessible to a heterogeneous readership.

Rafia Zafar is professor of English and African and African American Studies, Washington Univerisity in St. Louis

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ISBN 13	9780521497794
ISBN 10	0521497795
Title	Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Author	Deborah M Garfield
Series	Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1996-02-23
Number of pages	320
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