Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels
Harper, Frances
ISBN 10: 0807062332 ISBN 13: 9780807062333
Published by Beacon Press, 2000
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Winner of the College Language Association Book Award
Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.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.
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Title: Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, ...
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good