TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Harriet A.
AU  - Smith,Valerie
TI  - Incidents in the life of a slave girl
SN  - 9780195066708
AV  - 002 E 444 J17i 1990
U1  - 305.5/67/092 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Jacobs, Harriet A. 
KW  - Slaves
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women slaves
KW  - Mujeres esclavas
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Esclavos
KW  - Condiciones sociales
N1  - Facsim of ed. published: Boston : H. Jacobs, 1861; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs' account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come--from publisher's website
ER  -