In Search of Hannah Crafts Critical Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative
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Two years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina , which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever found, and possibly the first novel written by a black women anywhere. The Bondwoman's Narrative was published in 2002. In Search of Hannah Crafts now brings together twenty-two authorities on African-American history, including Nina Baym, Jean Fagan Yellin, William Andrews, Lawrence Buell, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin to examine such issues as authenticity and the history and criticism of this unique novel. The Bondwoman's Narrative will take its place in the African-American canon. In Search of Hannah Crafts is the book that scholars and students of African-American Studies, of women writers, and of slavery will need to understand this unprecedented historical and literary event.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780465027149 |
Publisher: | Basic Books |
Imprint: | Basic Civitas Books |
Pub date: | 24 Dec 2003 |
DEWEY: | 813.3 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 480 |
Weight: | 812g |
Height: | 236mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 37mm |