‘Twisting herself into all shapes’: blackface minstrelsy and comic performance in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig by Elizabeth Boyle

“…Taken as a whole, Wilson’s comic strategy, with its ‘embodied insurgency’, aligns her with the period’s most politically racial African American performers.…”
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Chienne, truie, renarde, belette… by Michel Briand

“…In Aesopic fables, some significant figures have different functions, depending on whether the species has a female grammatical gender or not, and whether their speeches agree or contradict the fabulist : sow, bitch, dove, crow, swallow, hyena, weasel, vixen……”
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