Lecture Examines First Novel by an African-American
"Our Nig," a book written by Harriet Wilson and ignored by
critics over a hundred years ago, will be the subject of a
lecture by Eve Allegra Raimon, a professor at USM's Lewiston-Auburn
College. The free public lecture, "Redefining the Tragic Mulatto
Figure: The Nexus of Class, Race, and Nationalism in Harriet
Wilson's 'Our Nig,'" will take place at 7 p.m., Thursday,
February 13, in Rooms ABC of USM's Woodbury Campus Center, Portland.
"Our Nig," was rediscovered and reprinted in 1983, and is
currently considered to be the first novel written by an African-American
published in the United States. The story portrays the life
of Frado, a girl deserted by her white mother after the death
of her black father.
Raimon is an associate professor of arts and humanities at
USM's Lewiston-Auburn College. Her manuscript, "Strategic
Tragedies: Refiguring Race, Nation, and the 'Tragic Mulatto'
in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction," is under contract
at Rutgers University Press.
This lecture is the third in USM's American and New England
Studies Program 2002-03 Lecture Series that will continue
through April. The lectures examine the struggles of minorities
as they worked to be a part of what is now the United States.
For more information on this lecture, and for access inquiries,
please call 780-4920/TTY 780-5646.
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