Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Contributor(s): Jacobs, Harriet (Author), Foster, Frances Smith (Editor), Yarborough, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393614565 ISBN-13: 9780393614565 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2018019207 |
Lexile Measure: 740 |
Series: Norton Critical Editions |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (0.90 lbs) 385 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: This Norton Critical Edition includes:
About the Series |
Contributor Bio(s): Jacobs, Harriet: - Harriet Jacobs was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1813, to slave parents. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the first full-length narrative written by a former slave woman in America, is a record of events and experiences of slavery seen through the eyes of the young Harriet during the years she lived in captivity in Edenton, through her escape, when she becomes a fugitive in the North at age twenty-nine, and concluding soon after a northern white friend buys her freedom in 1852.Foster, Frances Smith: - Frances Smith Foster (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego), Editor, The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance; Co-Editor, The Literature of Slavery and Freedom. Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emory University. Author of "Til Death or Distance Do Us Part" Love and Marriage in African America; Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892; and Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative. Co-editor of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Editor of several works, including Love and Marriage in Early African America; Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes; and the Norton Critical Edition of Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. |