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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 162. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (autobiography) 1861; also published as Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed in Slavery, 1861, and The...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), an autobiographical slave narrative set in North Carolina, the commonwealth of Massachusetts serves as an imagined space that promises refuge to...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Who'll Speak for Malinda?: Alternate Narratives of Freedom in The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb.
Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feeling is as vast as your own.--Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me... -
From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThough seemingly counter-intuitive, the violence of enslavement has both sublime and traumatic dimensions that can be considered in relation to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and Toni...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSeveral incisive explorations revealing how nineteenth-century African American writing constructs time, space, and race have been published over the past few years. For example, focusing on how the "built environment"...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
"These things took the shape of mystery": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as American Romance.
In chapter four of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the narrating voice of Linda Brent recalls an afternoon when her twelve-year-old brother William told her the story of how he avoided the whip... -
From:African American Review (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the Anti-Slavery Bugle' s 1851 report of her now iconic speech "Ar'n't I a Woman?," Sojourner Truth gestures meaningfully at what Western norms of gender regard as the masculinity of her female body: Truth explains...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedApply to the magistrate on the very first instance of ill-usage, should any occur during my absence. -- Matthew "Monk" Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor Despite the fact that the courts had not proven...
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From: The Voices of African American Women: The Use of Narrative and Authorial Voice in the Works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Johnson analyzes Jacobs's approach to point of view in her autobiography. Johnson argues that, by using a fictional alter ego to tell her life story, Jacobs establishes a...
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From: Southern Literary JournalIn the following essay, Doherty examines Jacob's use of the conventions of the sentimental genre and describes the shortcomings of Incidents as a sentimental novel. Rather, he argues that Jacobs “ingeniously inducts...
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From: American Studies[(essay date fall 1994) In the following essay, Morgan offers an in-depth analysis of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Through...
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From: Literary Griot[(essay date spring-fall 2002) In the following essay, Wardrop examines issues of miscegenation in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, discussing the ways that intimate relationships between slaves and slaveholders...
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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date summer 1995) In the following essay, Skinfill evaluates Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl within the context of nineteenth-century conceptions of racial identity and domesticity.] In fifty-seven years...
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From: The Southern Literary Journal[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Doherty comments on Harriet Jacobs's skilled application of the narrative conventions of the popular sentimental novel to her Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.] In 1853,...
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From: Sex, Race, and the Role of Women in the South: Essays[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Jones examines the role of race in the writings of women writers in the South, comparing Chesnut’s diary with works by two Black writers: Harriet Jacobs’s narrative Incidents in...
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From: The Langston Hughes Review[(essay date fall/spring 1999-2001) In the following essay, Jones contends that the relationship between Cora and Colonel Norwood in "Father and Son" reveals Hughes's misconception of black women as voiceless victims of...
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From:Rocky Mountain Review (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUsing Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Doris Pilkington/Nuri Garimara's Rabbit Proof Fence, and Uwem Akpans Fattening for Gabon, this paper charts the resistant resilience of three young...
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From: Poe’s Pervasive Influence[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, originally presented at a conference in 2009, Gruesser seeks to take the genre of detective fiction seriously as a literary scholar, seeing “different varieties of detection—in...
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From: Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960In the following essay, Washington analyzes Jacobs's use of the sentimental domestic genre, noting that this was “a poor choice for her story,” and emphasizes that Incidents reads more as a slave narrative than a...
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From: Southern Quarterly[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Daniel argues that the protagonist of Jacobs's narrative is a heroic figure, modeled after archetypal male characters from the Romantic literary tradition.] Harriet Ann...