Harriet Jacobs: A Play

by Lydia R. Diamond

Book Overview

Throughout her meteoric rise into the upper ranks of young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American culture. In Harriet Jacobs, she turns one of the greatest of American slave narratives, Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, into a penetrating, rousing work of theater.

Jacobs' book--which was published in 1861 and only partially serialized in Horace Greely's New York...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127164
• ISBN13: 9780810127166
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"