"Actual experience": correcting misconceptions through analyzing Harriet Wilson's Our Nig
African-American writers during the 19th century wrote in the shadow of the prominent romance, sentimental, and domestic fiction. Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) reflects an “alternative social character”, for the female protagonist suffers racism in the free North, because she is a mulatto child. T...
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David Publishing Company
2014
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36318/1/Actual%20experience%20correcting%20misconceptions%20through%20analyzing%20Harriet%20Wilson%27s%20Our%20Nig.pdf |