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| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson, 2005-01-01 This seminal autobiographical tale, believed to have been the first published by an African-American woman, describes the life and struggles of an orphaned mulatto. Part slave narrative and part sentimental novel, it recounts the heroine's exploitation, first by her employers and later by an opportunistic husband. Essential for students of African-American history and culture. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson, 2023-07-07 Considered the first novel by a female African-American, Our Nig was ignored upon first publication in 1859 and lost for more than 100 years. The novel achieved national attention when it was rediscovered and reprinted in 1983. Our Nig tells the story of Frado growing up as an indentured servant in the antebellum northern United States. Like Our Nig number of novels and other works of fiction of the period were in some part based on real-life events, including Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall; Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; or even Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson, 2011-12-20 With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis 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, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. This definitive edition of Our Nig includes a new Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis and a set of appendices: Harriet Wilson's Career as a Spiritualist; Hattie E. Wilson in the Banner of Light and Spiritual Scientist a collection of her extant contributions to these newspapers; Documents from Harriet Wilson's Life in Boston, and a compilation of primary source material relating to Wilson's identity. There is also a new chronology of the life of Harriet Wilson by Richard J. Ellis, as well as an up-to-date Select Bibliography of current scholarship regarding Harriet Wilson. This edition gives the fullest account to date of the life of Harriet Wilson, filling out many critical points regarding her life after writing Our Nig, in particular when she became a medium who communicated with the dead and as an educator in the Spiritualist movement after the Civil War. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig, Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Harriet Wilson, 2013-12 First published in 1859, Our Nig is an autobiographical narrative that stands as one of the most important accounts of the life of a black woman in the antebellum North. In the story of Frado, a spirited black girl who is abused and overworked as the indentured servant to a New England family, Harriet E. Wilson tells a heartbreaking story about the resilience of the human spirit. The female child of a white female outcast and a black freeman, Harriet Wilson gives a detailed account of what it was like being raised by a white family in the pre-Civil War North of the United States (a household where she was abandoned by her mother at 3). This biography gives a general idea of what a Negro's life in the North was like -- and it was not much different from that life of a slave in the South. The mistress of the house was brutal beyond measure, but many of the other family members were reasonably kind (though not kind of enough to put a stop to the abuse), and it makes one shudder to think of what could have happened in a family who had nothing but Negro-haters in it. Still, Wilson recounts how she got a small measure of schooling, and how she eventually became a Christian (something which the lady of the house -- a Christian herself -- opposed) and her eventual marriage. An upsetting story, it is nevertheless of much more value than Uncle Tom's Cabin as it was told from the point of view of the victim and not a sympathetic white. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson, 2012-04-19 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. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Harriet Wilson's New England JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, Barbara Ann White, 2007 This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England s past |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-story White House Harriet E. Wilson, 2013-09 First published in 1859, Our Nig is an autobiographical narrative that stands as one of the most important accounts of the life of a black woman in the antebellum North. In the story of Frado, a spirited black girl who is abused and overworked as the indentured servant to a New England family, Harriet E. Wilson tells a heartbreaking story about the resilience of the human spirit. This edition incorporates new research showing that Wilson was not only a pioneering African-American literary figure but also an entrepreneur in the black women's hair care market fifty years before Madame C. J. Walker's hair care empire made her the country's first woman millionaire. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: The Bondwoman's Narrative Hannah Crafts, 2002-04-02 Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig Harriet E. Wilson, 2015-12-03 Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house by Harriet E. Wilson. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North, Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There Harriet E. Wilson, 1983 A fascinating fusion of two literary modes of the 19th 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, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in 19th century Massachusetts.--Cover. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Blake; or, The Huts of America Martin R. Delany, 2017-02-13 Martin R. Delany’s Blake (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off before its final scene. This edition of Blake, prepared by textual scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative account of the work’s composition and publication history. In a lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and terrible present. Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the history of African American fiction, on the history of the American novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome as well the first reliable edition of Delany’s fiction. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North Harriet E. Wilson, 2002 Our Nig is a classic of African American Literature that has proven to be an enduring contribution to our understanding of free blacks in the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1859, it was neglected for over a hundred years and is now the subject of renewed scholarly interest. A fascinating fusion of two literary modes of the nineteenth century--the sentimental novel and the slave narrative--Our Nig traces the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl who grows up as an indentured servant to a white Massachusetts family. And now, as new scholarship sheds light on the author's life, our appreciation for Our Nig is enhanced. With a new afterword by Barbara A. White. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Black Imagination and the Middle Passage Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Carl Pedersen, 1999-10-21 This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myths, and arts, these contributions conceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American and American history, literature, and life. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Classic African American Women's Narratives William L. Andrews, 2003-01-16 Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography during the slavery era in U.S. history. Each text in the volume represents a first. Maria Stewart's Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality (1831) was the first political tract authored by an African American woman. Jarena Lee's Life and Religious Experience (1836) was the first African American woman's spiritual autobiography. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) was the first slave narrative to focus on the experience of a female slave in the United States. Frances E. W. Harper's The Two Offers (1859) was the first short story published by an African American woman. Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig (1859) was the first novel written by an African American woman. Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) was the first autobiography authored by an African American woman. Charlotte Forten's Life on the Sea Islands (1864) was the first contribution by an African American woman to a major American literary magazine (the Atlantic Monthly). Complemented with an introduction by William L. Andrews, this is the only one-volume collection to gather the most important works of the first great era of African American women's writing. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Nature and Selected Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2003-05-27 An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism. Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: The Earliest African American Literatures Zachary McLeod Hutchins, Cassander L. Smith, 2021-12-16 With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts chronicles the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period. Brief introductions preceding each text provide historical context and genre-specific interpretive prompts to foreground their significance. Included here are transcriptions from manuscript sources and colonial newspapers as well as forgotten texts. The Earliest African American Literatures will change the way that students and scholars conceive of early American literature and the role of black Africans in the formation of that literature. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: The Garies and Their Friends Frank J. Webb, 1857 Originally published in London in 1857 and never before available in paperback, The Garies and Their Friends is the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and 'passing, ' and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a 'highly respectable and industrious coloured family.' |
| harriet e wilson our nig: The Slave's Narrative Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., 1991-02-21 These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Activist Sentiments Pier Gabrielle Foreman, 2009 Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted Frances E. W. Harper, 2012-08-30 This 1892 work was among the first novels published by an African-American woman. Its striking portrait of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction recounts a mixed-race woman's devotion to uplifting the black community. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: A Shining Thread of Hope Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson, 2009-10-14 At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history. A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of antebellum plantations, from the reign of lynch law in the Jim Crow South to the triumphs of the Civil Rights era, and it illustrates how the story of black women in America is as much a tale of courage and hope as it is a history of struggle. On both an individual and a collective level, A Shining Thread of Hope reveals the strength and spirit of black women and brings their stories from the fringes of American history to a central position in our understanding of the forces and events that have shaped this country. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2012-02-29 Choice collection of masterly short fiction. In addition to title story: The Birthmark, Rappaccini's Daughter, Roger Malvin's Burial, The Artist of the Beautiful, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, and My Kinsman, Major Molineux. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: To Tell a Free Story William L. Andrews, 2022-10-17 To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black Americans. Andrews includes but also goes beyond slave narratives to analyze spiritual biographies, criminal confessions, captivity stories, travel accounts, interviews, and memoirs. As he shows, Black writers continuously faced the fact that northern whites often refused to accept their stories and memories as sincere, and especially distrusted portraits of southern whites as inhuman. Black writers had to silence parts of their stories or rely on subversive methods to make facts tellable while contending with the sensibilities of the white editors, publishers, and readers they relied upon and hoped to reach. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Constituting Americans Priscilla Wald, 1995 Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to fixing the words precisely of what it means to be an American |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Writers who Love Too Much Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, 2017 At last a major anthology of New Narrative, the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to change writing forever. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Contending Forces Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, 1900 |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Belabored Professions Xiomara Santamarina, 2006-05-18 According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as doers of the word. In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor. Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life, Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, and Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes. She argues that beyond black reformers' calls for abolitionist work, these former slaves and freeborn black women wrote about their own overlooked or disparaged work as socially and culturally valuable to the nation. They promoted the status of wage labor as a mark of self-reliance and civic virtue when many viewed African American working women as drudges. As Santamarina demonstrates, these texts offer modern readers new perspectives on the emergence of the vital African American autobiographical tradition, dramatizing the degree to which black working women participated in and shaped American rhetorics of labor, race, and femininity. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: American Protest Literature Zoe Trodd, 2008-04-30 ÒI like a little rebellion now and thenÓÑso wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movementsÑpolitical, social, and culturalÑfrom the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genresÑpamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, postersÑand a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Life Upon These Shores Henry Louis Gates, 2011 A director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard presents a sumptuously illustrated chronicle of more than 500 years of African-American history that focuses on defining events, debates and controversies as well as important achievements of famous and lesser-known figures, in a volume complemented by reproductions of ancient maps and historical paraphernalia. (This title was previously list in Forecast.) |
| harriet e wilson our nig: The "tragic Mulatta" Revisited Eve Allegra Raimon, 2004 This book focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbol for explorations of race and nation - both of which were in crisis in the mid-19th century. It suggests that the figure is a way of understanding the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians Lydia Maria Child, 1986 First published in 1824, Hobomok is the story of an upper-class white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for another man. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Alternative Alcott Louisa May Alcott, 1988 The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made readers and scholars increasingly aware of her accomplishments beyond her most famous novel, Little Women, one of the great international best-sellers of all time. This anthology brings together for the first time a variety of Louisa May Alcott's journalistic, satiric, feminist, and sensation texts. Elaine Showalter has provided an excellent introduction and notes to the collection. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, NorthShowing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There Harriet E. Wilson, 2018 Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, NorthShowing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There by Harriet E. Wilson is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Novels in Three Lines Félix Fénéon, 2007-08-21 A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious Félix Fénéon. Dandy, anarchist, and critic of genius, the discoverer of Georges Seurat and the first French publisher of James Joyce, Fénéon carefully maintained his own anonymity, toiling for years as an obscure clerk in the French War Department. Novels in Three Lines is his secret chef-d’oeuvre, a work of strange and singular art that brings back the long-ago year of 1906 with the haunting immediacy of a photograph while looking forward to such disparate works as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Death and Disaster series of Andy Warhol. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: "Race," Writing, and Difference Henry Louis Gates, 1986 A classic of cultural criticism, Race, Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of race as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial otherness in various modes of discourse. Now, fifteen years after their first publication, these essays have managed to escape the cliches associated with the race-class-gender trinity of '80s criticism, and remain a provocative overview of the complex interplay between race, writing, and difference. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands Jesús Benito, Ana María Manzanas, 2002 This volume stems from the idea that the notion of borders and borderlines as clear-cut frontiers separating not only political and geographical areas, but also cultural, linguistic and semiotic spaces, does not fully address the complexity of contemporary cultural encounters. Centering on a whole range of literary works from the United States and the Caribbean, the contributors suggest and discuss different theoretical and methodological grounds to address the literary production taking place across the lines in North American and Caribbean culture. The volume represents a pioneering attempt at proposing the concept of the border as a useful paradigm not only for the study of Chicano literature but also for the other American literatures. The works presented in the volume illustrate various aspects and manifestations of the textual border(lands), and explore the double-voiced discourse of border texts by writers like Harriet E. Wilson, Rudolfo Anaya, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Louise Erdrich, Helena Viramontes, Paule Marshall and Monica Sone, among others. This book is of interest for scholars and researchers in the field of comparative American studies and ethnic studies. |
| harriet e wilson our nig: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two Harriette Wilson, 2018-04-07 The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Harriette Wilson. Harriette Wilson was a celebrated British Regency courtesan (1786-1845). |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Colored People Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2011-07-06 In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation. A winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Vocabulary Concordance of Harriet E. Wilson's Novel, Our Nig Richard O. Lewis Ph.D., 2022-06-23 Lewis’ A VOCABULARY CONCORDANCE OF HARRIET E. WILSON’S NOVEL, OUR NIG (2021) tracks empathy featured in Harriet E. Wilson’s 1859 novel, OUR NIG; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Wilson’s main character, Mag Smith, presents behaviors that display the full humanity of African Americans. Lewis’ CONCORDANCE . . . catalogues the biased interactions among comingled populations. Lewis’ CONCORDANCE . . . identifies Wilson’s biased interactions imposed upon African American characters. The word, “OUR . . .” in Wilson’s title, embraces readers as family members who accept the main characters’ values as their own. Wilson’s subtlety engages topics about Earth’s natural environment, family relations, societal attitudes, cross-cultural exchanges, moral/corrupt practices, finances, entertainments, and personal struggles. Heading each of OUR NIG’s chapters, Wilson’s quotations challenge contemporary racial intolerance and gender bias. Overall, Wilson’s point-counterpoint style denounces ethnic degradations while claiming liberation for the Statue of Liberty’s 1886 “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” |
| harriet e wilson our nig: Zora neale Hurston Henry L. Gates, 2000-02-11 Zora Neale Hurston(1891 -- 1960) Of the various signs that the study of literature in America has been transformed, none is more salient than is the resurrection and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston. Twenty years ago, Hurston's work was largely out-of-print, her literary legacy alive only to a tiny, devoted band of readers who were often forced to photocopy her works if they were to be taught ... Today her works are central to the canon of African-American, American, and Women's literatures ... The author of four novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937),Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948); two books of folklore -- Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938); an autobiography, Dust Tracks On a Road (1942); and over 50 short stories, essays, and plays, Hurston was one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors for the two decades between 1925 and 1945. -- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-Story White House, North (1859) is an extraordinary novel, with an extraordinary history.
Economies of Identity: Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig - JSTOR
Economies of Identity: Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig have been reduced to a simplistic dichotomy of white and black supported only by an ever more contrived and corrupt ideological system. The legal and social codification of cultural sim-plifications is always complex, and Our Nig-which starts with an appeal to colored breth-
Tracking Frado: The Challenge of Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig to …
Wilson's 1851 novel Our Nig. Wilson's reworking of white concepts of identity- with regard to herself and her predominantly white environment- will be analyzed in terms of concepts that characterized other women's writing of the period: maternity, domesticity, and power.
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The Trickster's Signifying on Victimization in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig
—Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig By the time that Harriet Wilson wrote Our Nig in the late 1850s, representations of black female victimization had already become fully cemented in narrative form.
Challenging Conventions ñ Harriet Wilsons Our Nig
By challenging this popular notion, she lets air out of abolitionist Northerners’ tires by pointing out that racial injustices are found everywhere in the United States, not just in the South.
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5 Jan 2023 · Fall Even There Harriet E. Wilson,1983 First published in 1859, Our Nig is an autobiographical narrative that stands as one of the most important accounts of the life of a black woman in the antebellum North.
HARRIET E. WILSON’ S OUR NIG: AN IDIOSYNCRATIC …
This article proposes a new reading of Harriet Wilson’ s Our Nig (1859) that would release it from the kind of straitjacketing it has faced in the hands of some highly-programmatic criticism— be it feminist, ethnic, or
SUBVERSION OF NORTHERN RACIST IDEOLOGY IN HARRIET E. WILSON’S OUR NIG ...
This paper tries to explore the racial ideologies in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859). The novel is significant in that it is considered the...
'This Attempt of Their Sister': Harriet Wilson's Our Nig from
scribes Our Nig as "a book whose central theme is white racism in the North as experienced by a free black indentured servant in antebellum days" and notes that, as such, it revises the typology
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HARRIET E. WILSON’S OUR NIG A TRIAL FOR WRITING “MY …
HARRIET E. WILSON’S OUR NIG: A TRIAL FOR WRITING “MY OWN STORY” II. Keiko Noguchi. I. domestic novel, marriage and home, is given to the heroine of Our Nig. The “true womanhood” with its emphasis on piety, purity, obedience, and domesticity1 is either unavailable to, or unable to suppor.
HARRIET E. WILSON’S OUR NIG A TRIAL FOR WRITING “MY …
Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig is a story of a free black girl in the North. Since the details of the author’s life are extremely scarce, it is hard to determine whether the story is an autobiography or a work of imagination.
GENRE AND THE SELF: IDENTITY IN HARRIET WILSON’S OUR NIG
The physical cruelty evident in Our Nig, which is even more graphic in its depic-tion than Emily Brontë dared in Wuthering Heights (1847), brings the novel closer to the realm of the slave narrative.
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Postsentimental Conflict in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig. Karsten H. Piep. Storm and stress to-day rocks our little boat on the mad waters of the world-sea; there is within and with-out the sound of conflict, the burning of body and rending of soul; inspiration strives with doubt, and faith with vain questioning. W.E.B. DuBois1.
Our Nig - JSTOR
Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There (1859) is considered to be the first novel published by an African American woman. Set in a New England farming village, Our Nig tells the story of Frado, the child of an African American father, Jim, and a white mother, Mag.
“Actual Experience”: Correcting Misconceptions Through
Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) reflects an “alternative social character”, for the female. protagonist suffers racism in the free North, because she is a mulatto child. Through depicting the life of free blacks, who supposedly lives a better life than Southern slaves, Wilson exposes how she has actually lived and sensed life in.
Writing to Right the Spirit of Adoption: The Adoptive Mother / …
Harriet Wilson in Our Nig, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in her poems reprinted in A Brighter Coming Day, this essay becomes a litera-ry polyphonic conversation that critiques the cultural constructions of
'Our Nig' and the She-Devil: New Information about Harriet Wilson …
The recent rediscovery of Harriet E. Adams Wilson's OurNig, a narrative first published in 1859, was an important event in the history of African American letters and American literature as a whole.
Whiteness, the Real Intermediary Agent: Harriet E. Wilson’s …
This is why Harriet E. Wilson’s semi-autobiographical work of fiction, Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) has been experiencing. wave of attention since its rediscovery by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1982.
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Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-Story White House, North (1859) is an extraordinary novel, with an extraordinary history.
