Tag: Harriet Wilson

  • This article argues that the practical jokes running throughout Wilson’s novel Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) are evidence of a deliberate and sophisticated comic strategy that exploits the spectacular body’s potential for subversive performance and works against the alienating conditions of social and political marginalisation experienced by African…

  • First African-American woman novelist revisited Harvard University Gazette Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005-03-24 Ken Gewertz, Harvard News Office Harriet Wilson was a survivor. Now we have proof. Wilson wrote “Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black,” the earliest known novel by an African-American woman. It tells the story of Frado, a young biracial…

  • For the 150th anniversary of its first publication, a new edition of the pioneering African-American classic, reflecting groundbreaking discoveries about its author’s life

  • Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature St. Mary’s College of Maryland English 400.01 Fall 2008 Christine Wooley, Assistant Professor of English       This course will consider representations of passing (and thus also miscegenation) in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. While passing has often been depicted-and dismissed-as an act of racial betrayal,…

  • Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886 Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2009 261 pages Publication Number: AAT NR60321 ISBN: 9780494603215 Jessica Alexandra Maeve Murphy These presentee a la Faculte des etudes superieures En vue de l’obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en etudes anglaises “Nation, Miscegenation, and The Myth of the…

  • This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England’s past.

  • The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction Rutgers University Press 2004-09-29 202 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3481-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3482-4 Eve Allegra Raimon, Professor, Arts & Humanities University of Southern Maine Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and…