Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs today perhaps the single most read and studied Black American woman of the nineteenth century has not until recently enjoyed sustained scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship that will take its place as the primary resource for students and teachers of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars and emerging critics; the essays take on a variety of subjects in Incidents treating representation gender resistance and spirituality from differing angles.