Essays about: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"

Found 2 essays containing the words Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

1. 1. From Bondage to Advocacy : Gender, Double Consciousness and Abolitionist Persuasion in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Hanna Engström; [2024]
   Keywords : Harriet Jacobs; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; slave narrative; gender; double consciousness; abolitionism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to explore how the interplay between gender and double consciousness is used as a rhetorical device in Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861). Through a feminist theoretical lens and the concept of double consciousness I provide examples from the text illustrating Jacobs’ strategic use of different narrative techniques to convey her abolitionist message. READ MORE

3. 2. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Sara Calmius; [2024]
   Keywords : Resistance studies; Everyday resistance; Harriet Jacobs; Black motherhood; Antebellum America; Slavery;

   Abstract : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. READ MORE