Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harvest/HBJ Book) - Softcover

Jacobs, Harriet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156443503 ISBN 13: 9780156443500

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1973

Synopsis

An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship. Edited by L. Maria Child; Introduction by Walter Teller.

About this title

Product Description:

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Review:

[Of] female slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself" is the crowning achievement. Manifesting a command of rhetorical and narrative strategies rivaled only by that of Frederick Douglass, Jacobs's autobiography is one of the major works of Afro-American literature...Jacobs's narrative is a bold and gripping fusion of two major literary forms: she borrowed from the popular sentimental novel on one hand, and the slave narrative genre on the other. Her tale gains its importance from the fact that she charts, in great and painful detail, the sexual exploitation that daily haunted her life--and the life of every other black female slave...Ms. Yellin's superbly researched edition ensures that Harriet Jacobs will never be lost again.--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "New York Times Book Review "

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0156443503
• ISBN 13: 9780156443500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228