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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Harriet Jacobs"”.
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Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English
Research on Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl exploded after 1981, when Professor Jean Fagin Yellin discovered textual evidence for refuting then-current claims that Lydia Maria Child was the author of this engrossing story. Child was indeed the book's editor, …
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The Hands of Labor: Depictions of Antebellum Authorship and the Shaping of Class In the Willis Family (Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Jacobs)
… Parker Willis, and his servant, ex-slave Harriet Jacobs.</p> <p>While N. P. Willis portrayed the work of writing as an effortless task, depicting himself jotting down lines in ease and comfort, Fern equated writing with physically demanding labor that required strength and perseverance. …
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"both nourished at my grandmother's breast": Eating, Feeding, and the Subverted Female Ideal in Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
<p>This essay analyzes the relationship between Harriet Jacobs’ representations of womanhood in <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</em> and the domestic ideal which promoted a woman’s role as nurturer and nourisher. The main female characters in the text, particularly Mrs. Flint, Aunt …
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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
… Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Henry Bibb, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass.</p>
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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
… one another. In four chapters on David Walker, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and Gerrit Smith, it shows that this theory of nature enabled these writers to argue for the complete transformation of society to bring it into line with what they characterized as nature's true principles. This …
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
… as Robert Montgomery Bird, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe find in impairments avenues to resist the dominant narrative of unimpeded mobility inherent in Manifest Destiny. Across their works we see how a cast of characters including frontiersmen, renegade sailors, …
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Living clean and shopping green: Environmental domesticity and the nineteenth-century roots of ecoconsumption
… But as vocal critics of white femininity like Harriet Jacobs advertised, this power was fundamentally unattainable for the majority of American women. This was, in fact, white femininity’s selling point. By portraying the impossible standards of white femininity as always only just out of …
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Douglass, Jacobs, and Freedom Found in Resistance
… Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom - and Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - both include instances of the authors engaging in resistance against their slaveholders that do not free them from slavery. I begin with these narratives of resistance and make the …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… Specifically, I explore this subject using Harriet Jacobs' seminal autobiography and slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as the prism in which I historically focus the conversation. In chapter three, I move the discussion into an exploration of black motherhood. Much like …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
… necessary to reproduce slavery, as Harriet Jacobs showed in <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</em> (1861).</p> <p>Weaving together historical, political, and comparative analysis and close readings of media, literature, critical theory, and archival documents, I conclude that …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
… situation: INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL Harriet Jacobs</em></p> <p><em>Domestic / Social: THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD Bucchi Emecheta</em></p> <p><em>COMING TO BIRTH Marjory O. Macgoya,</em></p> <p><em>Violent Oppression: THE COLOR PURPLE Alice Walker</em></p> <p><em>PURPLE HIBISCUS Chimamanda …
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Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America
… Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Our Nig by Harriet Wilson. The legally sanctioned theft of humanity from the protagonists in these texts necessitates that work be redefined as the process of constituting personhood through the intellectual work of outwitting the …
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An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care
… were also forms of activism and empowerment. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Pauli Murray, and Mary Church Terrell among numerous other Black women were activists, abolitionists, and educators who devoted their lives to fighting for equality and …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, Dion Bouicault, Harriet Jacobs, and E.Pauline Johnson, “The Grammar of Kinship” examines how enslaved and formerly enslaved Afro-Cherokees, African American and Indigenous writers produced radical responses to the reorganization of their kinship networks. A primary …
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Figuring Women's Work: The Cultural Production of Care and Labor in the Industrial U.S.
… by working women, including Catharine Beecher, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Willa Cather, Anzia Yezierska, and Alice Childress, I demonstrate how the figures of women’s work were forged in relation to each other in order to apprehend the elaborate and racially segregated system of women …