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Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Contributor(s): Wilson, Harriet E. (Author), Gates, Henry Louis (Editor), Ellis, Richard J. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0307477452     ISBN-13: 9780307477453
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American - Historical
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.70 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
 
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With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis

A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.

This definitive edition of Our Nig includes a new Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis and a set of appendices: Harriet Wilson's Career as a Spiritualist; Hattie E. Wilson in the Banner of Light and Spiritual Scientist a collection of her extant contributions to these newspapers; Documents from Harriet Wilson's Life in Boston, and a compilation of primary source material relating to Wilson's identity. There is also a new chronology of the life of Harriet Wilson by Richard J. Ellis, as well as an up-to-date Select Bibliography of current scholarship regarding Harriet Wilson. This edition gives the fullest account to date of the life of Harriet Wilson, filling out many critical points regarding her life after writing Our Nig, in particular when she became a medium who communicated with the dead and as an educator in the Spiritualist movement after the Civil War.
 
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