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In Search of Hannah Crafts - by Henry Louis Gates & Hollis Robbins (Paperback)

In Search of Hannah Crafts - by  Henry Louis Gates & Hollis Robbins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Top African-American Studies scholars examine the history and reception of The Bondwoman's Narrative, the slave narrative that has changed how we view antebellum literature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Two years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, <i>The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina</i>, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever found, and possibly the first novel written by a black women anywhere. <i>The Bondwoman's Narrative</i> was published in 2002. <i>In Search of Hannah Crafts</i> now brings together twenty-two authorities on African-American history, including Nina Baym, Jean Fagan Yellin, William Andrews, Lawrence Buell, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin to examine such issues as authenticity and the history and criticism of this unique novel. <i>The Bondwoman's Narrative</i> will take its place in the African-American canon. <i>In Search of Hannah Crafts</i> is the book that scholars and students of African-American Studies, of women writers, and of slavery will need to understand this unprecedented historical and literary event.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</b>, is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including <i>Colored People, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, In Search of Our Roots</i>, and the American Book Award-winning <i>The Signifying Monkey</i>. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. <p/><b>Hollis Robbins</b>, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, received a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is author of <i>Flushing Away Sentiment: Water Politics in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country</i>. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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