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Our Nig

By Harriet E. Wilson & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Release : 1983-04-12

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

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With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Afterword by Barbara White

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.

Our Nig

By Harriet E. Wilson & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Release : 1983-04-12

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Afterword by Barbara White

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.

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