Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing and Region
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Document Type
Book
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage, wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North. Originally published in Boston in 1859 and "lost" until its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally considered the first work of fiction written by an African American woman published in the United States.
ISBN
9781584656418
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Press
City
Durham, N.H.
Keywords
Wilson, Harriet E., 1825-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors, Race in literature, New England -- In literature
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Literature | Literature in English, North America
Recommended Citation
Boggis, JerriAnne, Eve A. Raimon, and Barbara A. White. Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region. University of New Hampshire Press, 2007.
