Why Hasn't Harriet Wilson, the First Black Female Novelist, Been Given Her Due? by Artsjournal1

"The lack of widespread acknowledgement or recognition for Harriet E. Wilson, the first African American novelist and author of Our Nig (1859), comes as a surprise. A New Englander, Wilson reclaimed in her work the domestic, maternal, and liberating space of 19th-century women's fiction. She constructed a fiction which in turn dismantles Frenchman of Letters […]

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