Speaking of the body's pain: Harriet Wilson's 'Our Nig.' - Women's Culture Issue

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Cynthia J. Davis's work has been published in American Literature and Critical Matrix and will appear in the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. She is currently completing her dissertation at Duke University.

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