Title: In search of Hannah Crafts : critical essays on The bondwoman's narrative /
Authors: Gates, Henry Louis,; Robbins, Hollis, 1963-; Gates, Henry Louis,
Publisher: BasicCivitas,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Crafts, Hannah.; Women and literature United States History; African American women in literature.; Racially mixed people in literature.; Passing (Identity) in literature.; Plantation life in literature.; Fugitive slaves in literatue.; Slavery in literature; Fugitive slaves in literature.; North Carolina In literature.; Virginia In literature.
Abstract: Essays offer a critical analysis of "The Bondwoman's Narrative," a first novel written by a female African-American slave, assessing the influence of the work on our view of slavery, African-American history, and antebellum literature.
Contents: The Literary Marketplace: Between the Sentimental Novel and the Slave Narrative -- "A Silent Unobtrusive Way": Hannah Crafts and the Literary Marketplace / Augusta Rohrbach -- Bondwoman Unbound: Hannah Crafts's Art and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Practice / Lawrence Buell -- Hannah Crafts's Sense of an Ending / William Andrews -- Hannah Crafts, Novelist; or, How a Silent Observer Became a "Dabster at Invention" / Ann Fabian -- The Problem of Freedom in The Bondwoman's Narrative / John Stauffer -- Rewriting The Canon -- Blackening Bleak House: Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative / Hollis Robbins -- Jane Eyre, Bondwoman: Hannah Crafts's Rethinking of Charlotte Bronte / Catherine Keyser -- The Bondwoman's Narrative and Uncle Tom's Cabin / Jean Fagan Yellin -- The Bondwoman's Escape: Hannah Crafts Rewrites the First Play Published by an African American / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Antebellum Contexts --