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Our Nig
Harriet E. Wilson
其他書名
Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
出版
Courier Corporation
, 2012-04-19
主題
Fiction / Classics
ISBN
0486136914
9780486136912
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aZi8AQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous significance of Harriet Wilson's
Our Nig
." — Author Alice Walker
This seminal autobiographical novel, originally published in 1859, is believed to have been the first by an African-American woman. Harriet Wilson's compelling story describes the life of a mulatto girl who, after the death of her mother, is exploited first by a terrifying Northern family for whom she worked and then by an opportunistic husband.
A classic of African-American literature,
Our Nig
has made an enduring contribution to understanding the lives of free blacks in the nineteenth century. A fascinating combination of slave narrative and sentimental novel, the story traces the hardships and suffering of Frado, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in Massachusetts and spends much of her destitute life wandering through New England.
A clear and accurate account of race relations and perceptions of race in the antebellum North,
Our Nig
is essential reading for students of African-American history and culture.