"Minnie's Sacrifice", "Sowing and Reaping", "Trial and Triumph": Three Rediscovered Novels (BLACK WOMEN WRITER SERIES) - Hardcover

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807083321 ISBN 13: 9780807083321

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1994

Synopsis

An exciting recovery of three classic novels by the best-known African-American woman writer of the nineteenth century offers timeless tales dealing with social justice, love, and sexuality, offering innumerable insights into the lives of African Americans a century ago.

About this title

Review:

The novels challenge everything we thought we knew about American literature, about African American culture and about the course of literary history. -Ann duCille, The Women's Review of Books

"Add[s] both depth and detail to the legacy of [Frances Harper]." -Bob McCollough, The Boston Globe

"A major publishing event. The Harper novels-lively, idealistic and fun to read-change the shape of our literary canon forever. Foster's introduction sizzles. If only all literary criticism could be like this!" -Jane Tompkins, author of Sensational Design and West of Everything

About the Author:

Frances Smith Foster, professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, and well-known scholar of nineteenth-century African-American literature, is author of Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0807083321
• ISBN 13: 9780807083321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Foster Francis Smith, Frances Smith Foster