# In Search of Hannah Crafts

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- Authors: [Henry Gates](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-gates), [Hollis Robbins](https://www.bookquiver.com/hollis-robbins)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-12-01

## Description

Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever found, and possibly the first novel written by a black women anywhere. The Bondwoman's Narrative was published in 2002. In Search of Hannah Crafts now brings together twenty-two authorities on African-American studies to examine such issues as authenticity, and the history and criticism of this unique novel, including Nina Baym, Jean Fagan Yellin, William Andrews, Lawrence Buell, Karen Sanchez-Eppler and Shelley Fisher-Fishkin. The Bondwoman's Narrative will take its place in the African-American canon, and In Search of Hannah Crafts is the book that scholars and students of African-American Studies, of women writers, and of slavery, need to have to understand this unprecedented historical and literary event.

## Editions

### In Search of Hannah Crafts

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6502-708-8
- Published: 2004-12-01
- Language: en_GB