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New Book About Early African American Woman Author Edited by USM Professor

September 21, 2007

USM Associate Professor of Arts and Humanities Eve Allegra Raimon is a co-editor and contributor to the recently published book “Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing and Region.” This collection of essays, published by the University Press of New England, explores Wilson in the context of rural New England in the 19th century.

Wilson was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. This book, the first to focus on the writer, includes a forward by Henry Louis Gates Jr., W. E. B. Dubois Professor of Humanities at Harvard University. It joins the field of “new regionalism,” which offers new insights into ethnic communities historically present in New England but obscured until recently from public history.

Raimon, a resident of South Portland who teaches at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College, also wrote “The ‘Tragic Mulatta’ Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Antislavery Fiction,” published in 2004 by Rutgers University Press.

To read more about “Harriet Wilson’s New England,” please see

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/1-58465-641-7.html.

A jpg of the book cover suitable for publication is available at http://www.usm.maine.edu/mcr/news/0708releases/hwilson.jpg                             

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