My Jim : a novel
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New York : Three Rivers Press, [2006], �2005.
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
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190 pages ; 21 cm
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African American families -- Fiction.
African American families -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
African-American husband and wife -- Fiction.
African-American senior women -- Fiction.
African-American sharecroppers -- Fiction.
African-American women -- Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.
Freed slaves -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction.
Grandmother and granddaughter -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Husband and wife -- Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Love stories.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Senior women -- Fiction.
Separated friends, relatives, etc. -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Characters -- Fiction.
Women slaves -- Fiction.
African American families -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
African-American husband and wife -- Fiction.
African-American senior women -- Fiction.
African-American sharecroppers -- Fiction.
African-American women -- Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.
Freed slaves -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction.
Grandmother and granddaughter -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Husband and wife -- Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Love stories.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Senior women -- Fiction.
Separated friends, relatives, etc. -- Fiction.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Characters -- Fiction.
Women slaves -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : Three Rivers Press, [2006], �2005.
Format
Book
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes reader's group guide.
Description
In a poignant meditation on love and loss, Sadie, the abandoned wife of the slave Jim from Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn details her romance with Jim, an ambitious young slave. His decision to run away with a young white boy named Huck Finn, and the bleak repercussions of that decision for her and their children. A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry Finn's Jim, written in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery. My Jim is told in the incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who schools her granddaughter with lessons of love she learned in bondage. To help her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs to make, Sadie mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie's Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck. Sadie is suddenly left alone. Worried about her children, convinced her husband is dead, reviled as a witch, and punished for Jim's escape, Sadie's will and her love for Jim, even in absentia, animate her life and see her through. Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the true stories of countless slave women, My Jim recreates one of the most controversial characters in American literature. A nuanced critique of the great American novel, My Jim stands on its own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rawles, N. (20062005). My Jim: a novel (1st pbk. ed.). Three Rivers Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rawles, Nancy, 1958-. 20062005. My Jim: A Novel. Three Rivers Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rawles, Nancy, 1958-. My Jim: A Novel Three Rivers Press, 20062005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rawles, Nancy. My Jim: A Novel 1st pbk. ed., Three Rivers Press, 20062005.
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