Article: Reading The Narrative of Sojourner Truth as a collaborative text

Important and complex issues of unequal power over representation of women's experience arise in studying and teaching those nineteenth-century African American women's life-history texts that were produced in collaboration with white political allies. Even Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl (1861), the text in this category that is currently recognized as the most highly self-authored, underwent some changes under the influence of abolitionist editor Lydia Maria Child--though not nearly as much as was assumed before Jean Fagan Yellin's careful scholarship on the Child-Jacobs literary relationship.(1) The most complex of these problems of establishing authenticity of ...

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