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Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

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 | #1875098 in Books |  2002-04-16 |  2002-04-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.98 x.61 x5.18l,.90 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| A powerful story of suffering & survival|By Patto|Published in 1859, Our Nig may be the first novel by a black woman. Certainly it's the only narrative we have by a black indentured servant in the antebellum North. A skillful hybrid of autobiographical detail and novelistic conventions, the book was one of several ventures Harriet Wilson engaged in to support herself and her| |"I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous significance of Harriet Wilson's novel, Our Nig. It is as if we'd just discovered Phillis Wheatley—or Langston Hughes.... She represents a similar vastness of heretofore unexamine

With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Afterword by Barbara White

A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, wh...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black   |  Harriet E. Wilson. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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