Harriet Jacobs
Subtitle: a play
By: Lydia R. Diamond ; foreword by Megan Sandberg-Zakian with Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780810127166
Subjects: Drama; Slavery; Women slaves
Description: Throughout her career as a playwright, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American culture. In Harriet Jacobs, she turns one of the greatest American slave narratives, Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, into a penetrating, rousing work of theater. Jacob's story - serialized in the New York Tribune until it was deemed too graphic, and eventually published in book form in 1861 - exposed the sexual harrassment and abuse of slave girls and women at the hands of their masters. Harriet Jacobs: A Play organically incorporates theatrical elements that extend the book's enormous power. Though harrowing, Harriet Jacobs undertakes the necessary task of reenvisioning a difficult chapter in American history. -- from back cover.
Notes: "Inspired by Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs."