Dark Corners
Terence Ranger, 9 July 1987
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself
by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Jean FaganYellin.
Harvard, 306 pp., £29.95, July 1987,9780674447455 Show More
by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Jean FaganYellin.
Harvard, 306 pp., £29.95, July 1987,
The Spirit and the Drum: A Memoir of Africa
by Edith Turner.
University of Arizona Press, 165 pp., £15.95, July 1987,0 8165 1009 1 Show More
by Edith Turner.
University of Arizona Press, 165 pp., £15.95, July 1987,
Kaffir Boy: Growing out of Apartheid
by Mark Mathabane.
Bodley Head, 354 pp., £12.95, April 1987,0 370 31058 6 Show More
by Mark Mathabane.
Bodley Head, 354 pp., £12.95, April 1987,
“... raises questions concerning their representativeness, their literalness and their significance. Jean FaganYellin’s admirable edition of Jacobs’s story is mainly concerned, indeed, to confront such questions. Yellin herself had once accepted the general view that the book was a ... ”
