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- catalog abstract ""Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has notuntil now - been the subject of sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship that is sure to become the primary resource for students and teachers of Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars and emerging critics; the essays take on a variety of subjects from Incidents, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles. The chapters seek to contextualize both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art; all endeavor to be accessible to a heterogeneous readership."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9421884.
- catalog contributor b9421885.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has notuntil now - been the subject of sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship that is sure to become the primary resource for students and teachers of Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars and emerging critics; the essays take on a variety of subjects from Incidents, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles. The chapters seek to contextualize both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art; all endeavor to be accessible to a heterogeneous readership."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : over-exposed, under-exposed : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Rafia Zafar -- "I disguised my hand" : writing versions of the truth in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl and John Jacobs's "A true tale of slavery" / Jacqueline Goldsby -- Through her brother's eyes : Incidents and "A true tale" / Jean Fagan Yellin -- Resisting Incidents / Frances Smith Foster -- Manifest in signs : the politics of sex and representation in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Earwitness : female abolitionism, sexuality, and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Deborah M. Garfield -- Reading and redemption in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Sandra Gunning -- Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and the slavery debate : bondage, family, and the discourse of domesticity / Donald B. Gibson -- Motherhood beyond the gate : Jacobs's epistemic challenge in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / John Ernest -- "This poisonous system" : social ills, bodily ills, and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Mary Titus -- Carnival laughter : resistance in Incidents / Anne Bradford Warner -- Harriet Jacobs, Henry Thoreau, and the character of disobedience / Anita Goldman -- The tender of memory : restructuring value in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Stephanie A. Smith -- Conclusion : vexed alliances : race and female collaborations in the life of Harriet Jacobs / Deborah M. Garfield.".
- catalog extent "vi, 306 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521443601".
- catalog identifier "0521497795 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [100]".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973/.04960 20".
- catalog subject "E444.J17 H37 1996".
- catalog subject "Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897. Incidents in the life of a slave girl.".
- catalog subject "Slaves United States Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women slaves United States Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : over-exposed, under-exposed : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Rafia Zafar -- "I disguised my hand" : writing versions of the truth in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl and John Jacobs's "A true tale of slavery" / Jacqueline Goldsby -- Through her brother's eyes : Incidents and "A true tale" / Jean Fagan Yellin -- Resisting Incidents / Frances Smith Foster -- Manifest in signs : the politics of sex and representation in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Earwitness : female abolitionism, sexuality, and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Deborah M. Garfield -- Reading and redemption in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Sandra Gunning -- Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and the slavery debate : bondage, family, and the discourse of domesticity / Donald B. Gibson -- Motherhood beyond the gate : Jacobs's epistemic challenge in Incidents in the life of a slave girl / John Ernest -- "This poisonous system" : social ills, bodily ills, and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Mary Titus -- Carnival laughter : resistance in Incidents / Anne Bradford Warner -- Harriet Jacobs, Henry Thoreau, and the character of disobedience / Anita Goldman -- The tender of memory : restructuring value in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Stephanie A. Smith -- Conclusion : vexed alliances : race and female collaborations in the life of Harriet Jacobs / Deborah M. Garfield.".
- catalog title "Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl : new critical essays / edited by Deborah M. Garfield, Rafia Zafar.".
- catalog type "text".