Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

<b>The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women&#151;with an introduction by Tiya Miles author of <i>All That She Carried </i>and National Book Award finalist</b><br><br><b>&#147;[A] crowning achievement . . . [Jacobs] remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form&#151;a narrative at once black and female.&#148; &#151;Henry Louis Gates Jr. <i>The New York Times</i> </b> &#160;<br><br>In clear and unshrinking prose Harriet Jacobs&#151;writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent&#151;relates the story of her girlhood and adolescence as a slave in North Carolina and her eventual escape: a bildungsroman set in the complex terrain of a chauvinist white supremacist society. Resolutely addressing women readers rather than men <i>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</i> seeks to make white women understand how the threat of sexual violence shapes the lives of enslaved Black women and children. Equal&#160;parts brave and searing <i>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</i> is a triumph of American literature.<br><br><b>The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms with boldness creativity and a spirit of resistance.</b><br>AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES &#149; THE AWAKENING &#149; THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY &#149; THE HEADS OF CERBERUS &#149; LADY AUDLEY&#146;S SECRET &#149; LOVE ANGER MADNESS &#149; PASSING &#149; THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER &#149; THERE IS CONFUSION &#149; THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN &#149; VILLETTE