In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative

by Henry Gates and Hollis Robbins

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Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female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. The Bondwoman's Narrative was published in 2002. In Search of Hannah Crafts now brings together twenty-two authorities on African-American studies to examine such issues as authenticity, and the history and criticism of this unique novel, including Nina Baym, Jean Fagan Yellin, William Andrews, Lawrence Buell, Karen Sanchez-Eppler and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin.The Bondwoman's Narrative will take its place in the African-American canon, and In Search of Hannah Crafts is the book that scholars and students of African-American Studies, of women writers, and of slavery, need to have to understand this unprecedented historical and literary event.
  • ISBN10 0465027083
  • ISBN13 9780465027088
  • Publish Date 1 December 2004 (first published 24 December 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 5 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Basic Books
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 480
  • Language English