Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

• Utgivningsdatum: 1991-08-29
• Mått: 142 x 215 x 21 mm
• Vikt: 449 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
• Antal sidor: 352
• Förlag: OUP USA
• Illustratör: Valerie Smith
• ISBN: 9780195066708

• Slaveri
• Självbiografi: historia, politik och försvar

"A viable alternative to male save narratives. The specific problems faced by female slaves are clearly portrayed."--Ray Doyle, West Chester Univ."My personal favorite...Jacobs confronts the contradictions inherent in the category 'the black woman writer.' By engaging these issues and negotiating a course through them, she anticipates the literary and ideological position of subsequent generations of black women writers."--Jean Fagan Yellin, The Washington Post Book World"A corrective to those who have identified the slave narrative primarily as a male genre....This particular edition, with its introduction by Valerie Smith, sheds new light on the choices its heroine Linda Brent makes."--The Women's Review of Books"A viable alternative to male slave narratives. The specific problems faced by female slaves are clearly portrayed."--Ray Doyle, West Chester University"My personal favorite...Jacobs confronts the contradictions inherent in the category 'the black woman writer.' By engaging these issues and negotiating a course through them, she anticipates the literary and ideological position of subsequent generations of black women writers."--Jean Fagan Yellin, The Washington Post Book World"A corrective to those who have identified the slave narrative primarily as a male genre....This particular edition, with its introduction by Valerie Smith, sheds new light on the choices its heroine Linda Brent makes."--The Women's Review of Books

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