My Jim : a novel

Resource Information

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Label

My Jim : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Nancy Rawles

Creator

• Rawles, Nancy, 1958-

Author

• Rawles, Nancy, 1958-

Subject

• African-American senior women -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Love stories
• Slaves -- Fiction
• African American families -- Fiction
• Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
• Husband and wife -- Fiction
• Freed slaves -- Fiction
• African American women -- Fiction
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• Nineteenth century -- Fiction
• African-Americans -- Fiction
• Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction
• Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Grandmother and granddaughter -- Fiction
• Grandparent and child -- Fiction
• Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
• African-American husband and wife -- Fiction
• Plantation life -- Southern States -- Fiction
• Separated friends, relatives, etc. -- Fiction
• Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction
• Women slaves -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Characters -- Fiction
• African-American families -- Fiction
• Older women -- Fiction
• Senior women -- Fiction
• African-American women -- Fiction
• African-American teenage girls -- Fiction
• African-American sharecroppers -- Fiction
• Freedmen -- Fiction
• Historical fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Historical fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Love stories

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

IG#

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3568.A844

LC item number

M9 2006

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

juvenile