Our Nig
Author | : Harriet E. Wilson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307739339 |
ISBN-13 | : 0307739333 |
Rating | : 4/5 (333 Downloads) |
Download or read book Our Nig written by Harriet E. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.