Harriet Wilson's New England : race, writing, and region / [electronic resource]
Boggis, JerriAnne.
Raimon, Eve Allegra,1957-
White, Barbara A.1942-
Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. New Hampshire's "Shadows" : context and history -- Of bottles and books : reconsidering the readers of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig / Eric Gardner -- Harriet Wilson's mentors : the Walkers of Worcester / Barbara A. White -- George and Timothy Blanchard : surviving and thriving in nineteenth-century Milford / Reginald H. Pitts -- "As soon as I saw my sable brother, I felt more at home" : Sampson Battis, Harriet Wilson, and New Hampshire town history / David H. Watters -- New Hampshire forgot : African Americans in a community by the sea / Valerie Cunningham -- pt. 2. Reading "Sketches from the life of a free Black" : genre and gender -- Slavery's shadows : narrative Chiaroscuro and Our Nig / Mary Louise Kete -- Recovered autobiographies and the marketplace : Our Nig's generic genealogies and Harriet Wilson's entrepreneurial enterprise / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- The disorderly girl in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig / Lisa E. Green -- Beyond the page : rape and the failure of genre / Cassandra Jackson -- Miss Marsh's uncommon school reform / Eve Allegra Raimon -- Fairy tales and Our Nig : feminist approaches to teaching Harriet Wilson's novel / Helen Frink -- pt. 3. "A faithful band of supporters and defenders" : personal reflections -- Losing equilibrium : Harriet E. Wilson, Frado, and me / John Ernest -- Discovering Harriet Wilson in my own backyard / William Allen -- A conversation with Tami Sanders / Gloria Henry -- Not somewhere else, but here / JerriAnne Boggis.
Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900
Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900.
Women and literature
African American women authors.
Race in literature.
Religion and literature.