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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Life of a slave girl"”.
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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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"both nourished at my grandmother's breast": Eating, Feeding, and the Subverted Female Ideal in Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
… 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 Martha, and Linda Brent, highlight …
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
Since the 1970s, a number of critics have given critical attention to sentimental fiction. In 1977 and 1985 respectively, Ann Douglas and Jane Tompkins set the terms for almost all subsequent arguments about antebellum female authors. What critics have not done is given particular attention to the …
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When the "Unprotected" Body Speaks: The Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Black Females in the Caribbean and the United States
The purpose of this comparative study is first to acknowledge the Black female author's inclusion in the burgeoning literary marketplace of the nineteenth century, and second, to reinstate her in the scholarship of sentimental writings. I will focus on two representative texts from the …
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Douglass, Jacobs, and Freedom Found in Resistance
The narratives of abolitionist thinkers Frederick 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 …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… argues that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
<p>Building upon examinations of genericity, subalternity, and carcerality by Black, Indigenous, and women-of-color feminist scholars, my dissertation offers an account of how truth claims are produced and sustained to limit social change in representatively governed societies. Taking the gangster …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
<p><em>CRAFTING OPPRESSION OF WOMEN </em></p> <p><em>IN NOVELS BY WRITERS OF COLOR</em></p> <p><em>Abstract: </em></p> <p><em>This thesis explores methods used by the writers of five realist novels, to create oppressive situations for female characters in their work. In writing about these novels, …
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Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America
This dissertation investigates representations of women's work and the construction of identity in texts written by women between 1840 and 1877. I focus on the literary construction of workingwomen's struggle to find their place in a culture that valorizes women who selflessly devote themselves to …
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Tragic mercies and other journeys to redemption: defining the Morrisonian tragedy
… Tragedy problematizes current portrayals of tragedy and tragic acts in African American literature. Using Toni Morrison’s Beloved as a foundational text, I argue that Morrison executes a literary aesthetic that disrupts traditional constructs of the tragedy that elevate Eurocentric …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… has brought new focus to the entangled histories of Black and Indigenous presence in the Americas. Less attention, however, has been paid to interrogating how Black and Indigenous intimacies have been effaced in the American literary canon. My dissertation, “The Grammar of Kinship: Black and …