Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women-with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National Book Award finalist" A crowning achievement . . . Jacobs remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form-a narrative at once black and female." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New York Times
In clear and unshrinking prose, Harriet Jacobs-writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent-relates the story of her girlhood and adolescence as a slave in North Carolina and her eventual escape- a bildungsroman set in the complex terrain of a chauvinist, white supremacist society. Resolutely addressing women readers, rather than men, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl seeks to make white women understand how the threat of sexual violence shapes the lives of enslaved Black women and children. Equalparts brave and searing, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature.
The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES . THE AWAKENING . THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY . THE HEADS OF CERBERUS . LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET . LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS . PASSING . THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER . THERE IS CONFUSION . THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN . VILLETTE
Harriet Jacobs was a writer of African descent. Her master sexually harassed her when she was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina. As he threatened to sell her children, she took refuge in a cramped hole beneath her grandmother's roof, where she couldn't even stand. She eventually made it to New York, where she was reunited with her children Joseph and Louisa Matilda, as well as her brother John S., after seven years there.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593230367 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593230361 |
| Title | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
| Author | Harriet Jacobs |
| Series | Modern Library Torchbearers Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2021-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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