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Ray Doyle, West Chester Univ. My personal favorite...Jacobs confronts the contradictions inherent in the category 'the black woman writer.' By engaging these issues and negotiating a course through them, she anticipates the literary and ideological position of subsequent generations of black ... Read morewomen writers.
Jean Fagan Yellin, The Washington Post Book World A corrective to those who have identified the slave narrative primarily as a male genre....This particular edition, with its introduction by Valerie Smith, sheds new light on the choices its heroine Linda Brent makes.
The Women's Review of Books A viable alternative to male save narratives. The specific problems faced by female slaves are clearly portrayed.
Ray Doyle, West Chester Univ. My personal favorite...Jacobs confronts the contradictions inherent in the category 'the black woman writer.' By engaging these issues and negotiating a course through them, she anticipates the literary and ideological position of subsequent generations of black women writers.
Jean Fagan Yellin, The Washington Post Book World A corrective to those who have identified the slave narrative primarily as a male genre....This particular edition, with its introduction by Valerie Smith, sheds new light on the choices its heroine Linda Brent makes.
The Women's Review of Books A viable alternative to male save narratives. The specific problems faced by female slaves are clearly portrayed.
Ray Doyle, West Chester Univ. My personal favorite...Jacobs confronts the contradictions inherent in the category 'the black woman writer.' By engaging these issues and negotiating a course through them, she anticipates the literary and ideological position of subsequent generations of black women writers.
Jean Fagan Yellin, The Washington Post Book World A corrective to those who have identified the slave narrative primarily as a male genre....This particular edition, with its introduction by Valerie Smith, sheds new light on the choices its heroine Linda Brent makes.
The Women's Review of Books A viable alternative to male save narratives. The specific problems faced by female slaves are clearly portrayed.
Ray Doyle, West Chester Univ. My personal favorite...Jacobs confronts the contradictions inherent in the category 'the black woman writer.' By engaging these issues and negotiating a course through them, she anticipates the literary and ideological position of subsequent generations of black women writers.
Jean Fagan Yellin, The Washington Post Book World A corrective to those who have identified the slave narrative primarily as a male genre....This particular edition, with its introduction by Valerie Smith, sheds new light on the choices its heroine Linda Brent makes.
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