Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl
Subtitle: new critical essays
By: edited by Deborah M. Garfield, Rafia Zafar.
Contributors: Garfield, Deborah M.; Zafar, Rafia.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;; [100]
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Jacobs, Harriet A. 1813-1897.; Slaves -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Women slaves -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Description: Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has notuntil now - been the subject of sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship that is sure to become the primary resource for students and teachers of Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars and emerging critics; the essays take on a variety of subjects from Incidents, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles. The chapters seek to contextualize both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art; all endeavor to be accessible to a heterogeneous readership.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.