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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The most famous autobiography written by a nineteenth-century African American woman, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature and the unflinching narrative that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of African-American women
"I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."
In clear and unshrinking prose, Harriet Jacobs--writing under the pseudonym of "Linda Brent"--relates the story of her girlhood and adolescence as a slave in North Carolina and her eventual escape: a bildungsroman set in the complex terrain of a chauvinist, white-supremacist society. Resolutely addressing women readers, rather than men, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl sought to make white women understand the ways that the threat of sexual violence shaped the lives of enslaved black women and children.
- Kirjailija
- Harriet Jacobs
- ISBN
- 9780593230367
- Kieli
- englanti
- Paino
- 310 grammaa
- Julkaisupäivä
- 2.2.2021
- Kustantaja
- Modern Library Inc
- Sivumäärä
- 320
