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  title info:
    title: My Jim
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Rawles, Nancy
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Psychological fiction.
  genre: Historical fiction.
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  genre: Love stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2006
    copyright date: 2005
    edition: 1st pbk. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 190 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Nancy Rawles.
  note: Includes reader's group guide.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African American families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Reminiscing in old age
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Grandparent and child
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Loss (Psychology)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Teenage girls
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women slaves
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Older women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Freedmen
    genre: Fiction
  identifier: 140005401X
  identifier: 9781400054015
  identifier: 2004011606
  record info:
    record content source: IG#
    record creation date: 060111
    record change date: 20151103070340.0
    record identifier: in00002132584