Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Norton Critical Editions) (U)

Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Is The First Full-length Narrative Written By A Former Woman Slave In America. It Tells The Story Of Harriet Jacobs's Early Life As A Slave In North Carolina; Her Fugitive Years In New York, Boston, And Rochester, Where She Became An Abolition Activist; And Her Struggle For Freedom, Hard Won In 1852. This Text Is A Reprint Of The 1861 First Edition, With Explanatory Annotations And An Introduction By Nellie Y. Mckay And Frances Smith Foster. Contexts Includes Contemporary Responses To Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl By William C. Nell And Lydia Maria Child, Among Others; Twelve Related Letters And Articles By Jacobs Published In Newspapers During The Period From 1853 To 1868; And Documents Tracing Jacobs's Life And Achievements As A Free Woman, Including Her Establishment Of A School In Alexandria, Virginia. Criticism Collects Eleven Important Assessments Of The Work By Jean Fagan Yellin, Ann Taves, Valerie Smith, Nellie Y. Mckay, Harryette Mullen, Michelle Burnham, Nell Irvin Painter, Frances Smith Foster, Sandra Gunning, Elizabeth V. Spelman, And Christina Accomando. A Chronology And Selected Bibliography Are Also Included.--jacket. Criticism: Written By Herself : Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative / Jean Fagan Yellin -- Spiritual Purity And Sexual Shame : Religious Themes In The Writings Of Harriet Jacobs / Ann Taves -- Form And Ideology In Three Slave Narratives / Valerie Smith -- The Girls Who Became The Women : Childhood Memories In The Autobiographies Of Harriet Jacobs, Mary Church Terrell, And Anne Moody / Nellie Y. Mckay -- Runaway Tongue : Resistant Orality In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, And Beloved / Harryette Mullen -- Loopholes Of Resistance : Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative And The Critique Of Agency In Foucault / Michelle Burnham -- Three Southern Women And Freud : A Non-exceptionalist Aproach To Race, Class, And Gender In The Slave South / Nell Irvin Painter -- Resisting Incidents / Frances Smith Foster -- Reading And Redemption In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl / Sandra Gunning -- The Heady Political Life Of Compassion / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- The Laws Were Laid Down To Me Anew : Harriet Jacobs And The Reframing Of Legal Fictions / Christina Accomando. Harriet Jacobs ; Edited By Nellie Y. Mckay, Frances Smith Foster. Originally Published: Boston : Published For The Author, 1861. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 389-390).