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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xl, 391 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	American prose literature -- African American authors. American prose literature -- Women authors. Women and literature -- United States. African American women -- Biography. Autobiographies -- United States. Autobiographies -- Women authors. Narration (Rhetoric) African American women. American prose literature -- African American authors. American prose literature -- Women authors. Autobiographies. Autobiography -- Women authors. Narration (Rhetoric) Women and literature. United States. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135635

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Other authors / contributors:	Andrews, William L., 1946-
ISBN:	9780198032410 0198032412 019530263X 9780195302639 9786610481637 6610481636 1429415169 9781429415163 9786612367359 6612367350 160256762X 9781602567627 1282367358 9781282367357 9780195141344 0195141342 9780195141351 0195141350 1280481633 9781280481635
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography during the slavery era in U.S. history. Each text in the volume represents a "first." Maria Stewart's Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality (1831) was the first political tract authored by an African American woman. Jarena Lee's Life and Religious Experience (1836) was the first African American woman's spiritual autobiography. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) was the first slave narrative to focus on the experience of a female slave in the United States. Frances E.W. Harper's "The Two Offers" (1859) was the first short story published by an African American woman. Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig (1859) was the first novel written by an African American woman. Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) was the first autobiography authored by an African American woman. Charlotte Forten's "Life on the Sea Islands" (1864) was the first contribution by an African American woman to a major American literary magazine (the Atlantic Monthly). Complemented with an introduction by William L. Andrews, this is the only one-volume collection to gather the most important works of the first great era of African American women's writing
Other form:	Print version: Classic African American women's narratives. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195141342 0195141350

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All written before 1865, the prose works in this collection represent a number of "firsts" by African American women, including the first political pamphlet, the first spiritual autobiography, the first book to focus on the experience of a female slave in the United States, and the first novel. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Classic African American women's narratives /

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