Frances Harper

Broschiertes Buch

Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph

Three Rediscovered Novels

Herausgeber: Foster, Frances Smith

Beschreibung

Winner of the College Language Association Book Award Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.

Autor

Frances Smith Foster, professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, and well-known scholar of nineteenth-century African-American literature, is author of Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives.<

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780807062333
• ISBN-10: 0807062332
• Artikelnr.: 21877331