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--with an introduction by Tiya Miles author of <i>All That She Carried </i>and National Book Award finalist</b> <p/><b>[A] crowning achievement . . . [Jacobs] remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form--a narrative at once black and female. --Henry Louis Gates Jr. <i>The New York Times</i> </b> <p/>In clear and unshrinking prose Harriet Jacobs--writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent--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 parts brave and searing <i>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</i> is a triumph of American literature. <p/><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 - THE AWAKENING - THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY - THE HEADS OF CERBERUS - LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET - LOVE ANGER MADNESS - PASSING - THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER - THERE IS CONFUSION - THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN - VILLETTE