Feminism In Slave Narratives

Author : Franziska Scholz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783640477241

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Feminism in Slave Narratives by Franziska Scholz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: African American Literature, language: English, abstract: The content of this paper deals with the experiences of American slaves out of a male and a female perspective to outline the relevance of feminism in anti-slavery literature. The first chapter gives an insight into the characteristics of slave narratives such as style, structure, themes and aims. Slave narratives are a product of abolitionism, but the aim of this paper is to show feministic influences as well, as the second chapter illustrates. By comparing the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, written by himself with Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl I want to show that the motifs for escape out of slavery are connected to very different factors for a slave woman compared to those of a slave man. Both Douglass and Jacobs suffer from the prevailing system of slavery, but Jacobs’ female point-of-view adds the suffrage from patriarchy as well. Finally I am going to follow the question why Douglass’ narrative gained more success in the 19th century than Jacobs’ narrative, although both stories deal with antislavery, oppression and the struggle for freedom.

Author : Dana Renee Horton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793619143

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Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives by Dana Renee Horton Pdf

Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides an innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twenty-first century American cultural productions. Covering a broad range of narrative forms ranging from novels like The Known World to films like 12 Years a Slave and the music of Missy Elliott, Dana Renee Horton engages with post-neo-slave narratives, a genre she defines as literary and visual texts that mesh conventions of postmodernity with the neo-slave narrative. Focusing on the characterization of black women in these texts, Horton argues that they are portrayed as commodities who commodify enslaved people, a fluid and complex characterization that is a foundational aspect of postmodern identity and emphasizes how postmodern identity restructures the conception of slave-owners.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0195052676

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199731480

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The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative by John Ernest Pdf

This volume approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritising the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing inter-disciplinary approaches to slave narratives; and by highlighting emerging scholarship on slave narratives, concerning both established debates over concerns of authorship and agency, for example, and developing concerns like eco-critical readings of slave narratives.

Author : DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482315

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Speaking Power by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor Pdf

In Speaking Power, DoVeanna S. Fulton explores and analyzes the use of oral traditions in African American women's autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery. African American women have consistently employed oral traditions not only to relate the pain and degradation of slavery, but also to celebrate the subversions, struggles, and triumphs of Black experience. Fulton examines orality as a rhetorical strategy, its role in passing on family and personal history, and its ability to empower, subvert oppression, assert agency, and create representations for the past. In addition to taking an insightful look at obscure or little-studied slave narratives like Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon and the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Fulton also brings a fresh perspective to more familiar works, such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, and highlights Black feminist orality in such works as Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Gayl Jones's Corregidora.

Author : Harriet Jacobs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101657348

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Pdf

“One of the major autobiographies of the African-American tradition.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with these gloomy recollections come tender memories of my good old grandmother, like light fleecy clouds floating over a dark and troubled sea.” One of the most memorable slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl illustrates the overarching evil and pervasive depravity of the institution of slavery. In great and painful detail, Jacobs describes her life as a Southern slave, the exploitation that haunted her daily life, her abuse by her master, the involvement she sought with another white man in order to escape her master, and her determination to win freedom for herself and her children. From her seven years of hiding in a garret that was three feet high, to her harrowing escape north to a reunion with her children and freedom, Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains an outstanding example of one woman’s extraordinary courage in the face of almost unbeatable odds, as well as one of the most significant testimonials in American history.

Author : DoVeanna S. Fulton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791466388

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Speaking Power by DoVeanna S. Fulton Pdf

Analyzes Black women’s rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.

Author : Harriet A. Jacobs
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375041250

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Author : L. Myles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230103160

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Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement by L. Myles Pdf

Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and consciousness.

Author : Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488854

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Women's Movement by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson Pdf

Women’s Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape narratives. While definitions of escape are necessarily broad, they have too often excluded the ambiguous escape – the escape most closely associated with the female. Indeed, feminist escape narratives often resist a happy ending, and Women’s Movement argues that these narrative closures reflect the changing face of feminism, as it sheds its old certainties, is faced with a monumental “backlash” and is refigured as the potentially less threatening “postfeminism”. Resisting the automatic association of “escape” with “escapist,” Women’s Movement analyzes male adventure and quest narratives, including Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blood Meridian, and Deliverance, before turning to a range of feminist texts. While being the first book to give critical attention to some postfeminist novels, Women’s Movement more often acts as a channel for offering different ways of approaching familiar feminist texts, including, among others, Marian Engel’s Bear, Atwood’s Surfacing and The Handmaid’s Tale, Joan Barfoot’s Gaining Ground and Dancing in the Dark, Anne Tyler’s Earthly Possessions and Ladder of Years, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying and Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners.

Author : Harriet A. Jacobs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674035836

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs Pdf

John Jacobs' short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery", published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs' autobiography. This book is the enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative that completes the Jacobs family saga.

Author : Jennifer Fleischner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814726303

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Mastering Slavery by Jennifer Fleischner Pdf

Studies the deployment of psychologically coded strategies of remembering and representing in slave narratives by women. After a discussion of psychoanalytic theory, chapters compare the ways in which Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe dealt with their anxieties over interracial sisterhood, analyze the identity of the black self in a white world in Elizabeth Keckley's autobiography, and look at socially forbidden aggression in slave narratives. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Harriet A. Jacobs
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580493369

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic by Harriet A. Jacobs Pdf

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Jacobs' perspectives and language.DRIVEN BY THE HORRORS of slavery and fear of a predatory master, Harriet Jacobs, a young black woman, makes the fateful, life-altering decision to escape. Long thought to be the work of a white writer, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the captivating and terrifying story of Jacobs' daily life on a plantation in North Carolina, her seven years of hiding, and her ultimate triumph.Jacobs wrote her autobiography in 1861, under a pseudonym to protect the lives of the friends and family she left behind, and the work had been essentially lost until the mid-twentieth century. Now recognized as a classic, unflinching portrait of slave life, Incidents exposes slavery on a level comparable only to that of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Author : DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor,Reginald H. Pitts
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438429663

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Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor,Reginald H. Pitts Pdf

Critical edition of three women’s oral slave narratives.

Author : Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520378735

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Touching Liberty by Karen Sánchez-Eppler Pdf

In this striking study of the pre–Civil War literary imagination, Karen Sánchez-Eppler charts how bodily difference came to be recognized as a central problem for both political and literary expression. Her readings of sentimental anti-slavery fiction, slave narratives, and the lyric poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson demonstrate how these texts participated in producing a new model of personhood—one in which the racially distinct and physically constrained slave body converged alongside the sexually distinct and domestically circumscribed female body. Moving from the public domain of abolitionist politics to the privacy of lyric poetry, Sánchez-Eppler argues that attention to the physical body blurs the boundaries between public and private. Drawing analogies between black and female bodies, feminist-abolitionists use the public sphere of anti-slavery politics to write about sexual desires and anxieties they cannot voice directly. However, Sánchez-Eppler warns against exaggerating the positive links between literature and politics. She finds that the relationships between feminism and abolitionism reveal patterns of exploitation, appropriation, and displacement of the black body that acknowledge the difficulties in embracing “difference” in the nineteenth century as in the twentieth. Her insightful examination of these issues makes a distinctive mark within American literary and cultural studies. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.