Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(女奴生平)|报价￥47.40|图书,进口原版,Biographies & Memoirs 传记,Historical 历史,
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基本信息
·出版社：W. W. Norton & Company; New Ed edition
·页码：390 页码
·出版日：2000年
·ISBN：9780393976373
·条码：9780393976373
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 32开
内容简介
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlis the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. The text is that of the 1861 first edition.Contextsincludes contemporary responses to Incidents, selections from Jacobs's other published writings, and extracts from her correspondence.Criticismincludes eleven important assessments of the narrative, contributed by Jean Fagan Yellin, Ann Taves, Valerie Smith, Nellie Y. McKay, Harryette Mullen, Michelle Burnham, Nell Irvin Painter, Frances Smith Foster, Sandra Gunning, Elizabeth V. Spelman, and Christine Accomando. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of theNorton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehenive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
作者简介
Nellie Y. McKayis Professor of American and Afro-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author ofJean Toomer-the Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936, editor ofCritical Essays on Toni Morrison, and associate editor ofAfrican American Review. She is general editor ofThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature.Frances Smith Fosteris Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory University. Her books includeWritten by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892, Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping: Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, andWitnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative. She is an editor ofThe Norton Anthology of African American Literatureand co-editor of theOxford Companion to African American Literature.
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From Library Journal
Published in 1861, this was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner. She made several failed attempts to escape before successfully making her way North, though it took years of hiding and slow progress. Eventually, she was reunited with her children. For all biography and history collections.
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From500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women," Harriet Jacobs wrote in 1861. At that time she was an escaped slave living in the north, but the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 meant that she could not longer consider being in the northern states a guarantee of freedom or safety. Her book is an eloquent recital of the suffering that is slavery. Families broken apart; promises of freedom made but never kept; whippings, beatings, and burnings; masters selling their own children - all are recounted with precise detail and a blazing indignation. Harriet Jacobs'' master started pursuing her when she was fifteen; in disgust she continually refused and avoided him. Her first attempt at revenge and escape failed: she became the lover of a local unmarried white man and had several children, but even then her master refused to sell her. Finally, in desperation, she ran away and hid in an uninsulated garret, three feet high at its tallest point with almost no air or light. She stayed there for seven years, enduring cold, heat, and a crippling lack of movement, always hoping to catch a glimpse of her children through a crack in the walls as they walked by on the road below her. At last she had a chance to escape to the North. Her story is a remarkable testimony to her strength and courage, and an unrelenting attack upon the institution of slavery.-- For great reviews of books for girls, check outLet''s Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Louise Meriwether Harriet Jacobs in her narrative reveals how she refused to be victimized within her own mind, but rather chose to act instead from a steadfast conviction of her own worth....Hers is an example worth emulating even in these modern times.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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