{"id":33424,"date":"2024-07-29T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33424"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:26:20","slug":"book-by-hecimovich-earns-extensive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/book-by-hecimovich-earns-extensive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Book by Hecimovich earns extensive review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book by Furman University English Professor Gregg Hecimovich earned extensive commentary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2024\/08\/15\/in-search-of-the-real-hannah-crafts-gregg-hecimovich\/\">The New York Review of Books<\/a>. &#8220;The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,&#8221; released in 2023, uncovers the true identity and life story of the author of &#8220;The Bondwoman&#8217;s Narrative,&#8221; the first novel believed to be written by a Black woman. In Brenda Wineapple&#8217;s analysis of Hecimovich&#8217;s book, she wrote, &#8220;[Hecimovich] approaches the mystery of the bondwoman as a kind of puzzle, pieces of which were strewn from North Carolina to New Jersey&#8221; on his quest &#8220;to shed light on those Black people who had been forced to live and labor in the shadows of others and had died unknown, their stories not just unwritten but unremembered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Free registration with The New York Review is required to view the entire article. Furman ID holders may view the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Hecimovich&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,&#8221; garners praise and a touch of criticism from Brenda Wineapple in The New York Review of Books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":28718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,52,2914],"tags":[2915,2363,2143,1110],"class_list":["post-33424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-the-new-york-review","tag-book-review","tag-first-black-female-novelist","tag-public-memory","tag-slavery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33424"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33446,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33424\/revisions\/33446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}