Harriet Wilson's New England : race, writing, and region / edited by JerriAnne Boggis, Eve Allegra Raimon, Barbara A. White.

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Other Authors: Boggis, JerriAnne., Raimon, Eve Allegra, 1957-, White, Barbara A., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, [2007]
Series:Revisiting New England.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. New Hampshire's "Shadows" : context and history
  • Of bottles and books : reconsidering the readers of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig / Eric Gardner
  • Harriet Wilson's mentors : the Walkers of Worcester / Barbara A. White
  • George and Timothy Blanchard : surviving and thriving in nineteenth-century Milford / Reginald H. Pitts
  • "As soon as I saw my sable brother, I felt more at home" : Sampson Battis, Harriet Wilson, and New Hampshire town history / David H. Watters
  • New Hampshire forgot : African Americans in a community by the sea / Valerie Cunningham
  • pt. 2. Reading "Sketches from the life of a free Black" : genre and gender
  • Slavery's shadows : narrative Chiaroscuro and Our Nig / Mary Louise Kete
  • Recovered autobiographies and the marketplace : Our Nig's generic genealogies and Harriet Wilson's entrepreneurial enterprise / P. Gabrielle Foreman
  • The disorderly girl in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig / Lisa E. Green
  • Beyond the page : rape and the failure of genre / Cassandra Jackson
  • Miss Marsh's uncommon school reform / Eve Allegra Raimon
  • Fairy tales and Our Nig : feminist approaches to teaching Harriet Wilson's novel / Helen Frink
  • pt. 3. "A faithful band of supporters and defenders" : personal reflections
  • Losing equilibrium : Harriet E. Wilson, Frado, and me / John Ernest
  • Discovering Harriet Wilson in my own backyard / William Allen
  • A conversation with Tami Sanders / Gloria Henry
  • Not somewhere else, but here / JerriAnne Boggis.