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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1973) by Linda Brent was originally published with the assistance of a white woman named L. Maria Child in 1861. This book has become a crucial piece in nineteenth-century American literature. Though the slave narrative constitutes its own genre, Brent’s book is one of the few written by a woman.
‘‘Everyday Use’’ by Alice Walker is a short story that explores many of the same themes about African-American culture that Wideman’s stories do. Walker also experiments with the same techniques of integrating oral culture into...
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