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Between the Rock and the Hard Place: Mediating Spaces in Harriet Jacob's 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl', in African American Review » Read Now
by Gloria T. Randle. 14 pgs.

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...hard place: mediating spaces in Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave...find especially remarkable about Harriet Jacobss story is the unfolding of her...York:...
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Through Slave Culture's Lens Comes the Abundant Source: Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, in MELUS » Read Now
by Karen E. Beardslee. 22 pgs.

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...can now be seen as dominating Harriet Jacobss story is not the voice of all...model I would like to apply to Harriet Jacobss work, Incidents in the Life...Bloomington:...
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Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper » Read Now
by John Ernest. 272 pgs.

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An examination of how six prominent African-American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world.
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Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 (Chap. Six "Writing across the Color Line: Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl") » Read Now
by Frances Smith Foster. 206 pgs.

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This is the first comprehensive cultural of history of literature by African American women prior to the Twentieth century. Beginning with the earliest extant writings, Frances Smith Foster her textual analysis within the writers' social and literary contexts.
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Harriet Jacobs and the "Double Burden" of American Slavery, in International Social Science Review » Read Now
by Jennie Miller. 11 pgs.

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...Harriet Jacobs and the "Double Burden" of American...Frederick Douglass of Maryland and Harriet Jacobs of North Carolina are among that small...than slave men. Frederick...
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The Slave's Narrative ("Texts and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself" begins on p. 262) » Read Now
by Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr. 339 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Material from TEXTS AND CONTENTS OF HARRIET JACOBS INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE...article, TEXTS AND CONTENTS OF HARRIET JACOBS INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE...Fagan...
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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (Chap. 3 "'Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters': Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation") » Read Now
by Hazel V. Carby. 223 pgs.

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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing...
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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture. Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural and political activity by such black women writers as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Hopkins.
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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Chap. 4 "Domesticating 'Blackness': Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body") » Read Now
by Lori Merish. 390 pgs.

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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural art facts -- from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and...
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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural art facts -- from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars -- Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a form of personal expressiveness that indicated not only a woman's wealth and taste but also her race, class, morality, and civic values. The discursive production of this new subjectivity -- the feminine consumer -- was remarkably influential, helping to shape American capitalism, culture, and nation building.
The phenomenon of female consumption was capitalism's complement to male production: It created what Merish calls the "Other Protestant Ethic", a feminine and sentimental counter-part to Max Weber's ethic of hard work, economic rationality, and self-control. In addition, driven by the culture's effort to,civilize the "cannibalistic" practices of ethnic, class, and national otherness, appropriate female consumerism, marked by taste and refinement, identified certain women and their families as proper citizens of the United States. The public nature of consumption, however, had curiously conflicting effects: While the achievement of cultured material circumstances facilitated women's civic agency, it also reinforced stereotypes of domestic womanhood.
Merish's inquiry into middle-class consumption and accompanying ideals of womanhood will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines, including American studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and cultural history.
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Spiritual Purity and Sexual Shame: Religious Themes in the Writings of Harriet Jacobs, in Church history » Read Now
by Ann Taves. 14 pgs.

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...Religious Themes in the Writings of Harriet Jacobs ANN TAVES In a review published...attention to religious issues. 5 Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave...6...
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Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation (Chap. 4"Authority, Power, and Determination of the Will: The Dilemma of Rhetorical Ownership in Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl") » Read Now
by Sterling Bland Lecater Jr. 184 pgs.

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African American fugitive slave narratives are receiving growing amounts of attention for their literary and historical value. This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. By examining such issues as voice and...
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African American fugitive slave narratives are receiving growing amounts of attention for their literary and historical value. This book examines the techniques the slave narrative writers used to authorize and rhetorically create themselves in their writings. By examining such issues as voice and identity formation, the volume demonstrates how identity may be seen as a cultural fabrication. Former slave narrators used a series of masking and doubling techniques to address their experiences as African Americans. This book crosses the boundaries between literary criticism and historical study by examining the tensions between generic conventions and the impulses that created and reinforced them.
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Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill ("The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill" begins on p. 455) » Read Now
by Michael Moon, Cathy N. Davidson. 529 pgs.

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...The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill 455...despite the differences among the testimonies of Harriet Jacobs, Frances...
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The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers ("Harriet Jacobs's Incidents and the 'Careless Daughters' (and Sons) Who Read It" begins on p. 92) » Read Now
by Joyce W. Warren. 314 pgs.

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...FRANCES SMITH FOSTER Harriet Jacobss Incidents and the "Careless...and white, are interrelated. Harriet Jacobs, in Incidents in the Life of...premises of American culture...
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At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature (Chap. 6 "'Reconstructing the Family: Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl") » Read Now
by John Carlos Rowe. 302 pgs.

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Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which...
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Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.
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Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography (Chap. 6 "(En)Slaved Narrative: Early Afro-American Life Writing") » Read Now
by G. Thomas Couser. 285 pgs.

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This work explores the "authority" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparent congruence...
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This work explores the "authority" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparent congruence between the implicit ideology of the genre and that of the nation, autobiography has a special prestige in America. Aware of the recent critiques of the notion of autobiography as issuing from, determined by, or referring to a pre-existing self, Couser examines the ways in which the authority of particular texts is called into question--for example, because they involve pseudonymity (Mark Twain), the revision of a presumably spontaneous form (Mary Chesnut's Civil War "diaries"), bilingual authorship (Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston), collaborative production (Black Elk), or outright fraud (Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of Howard Hughes). Couser examines both the way in which canonical autobiographers may playfully and purposely undermine their own narrative authority and the way in which minority writers' control of their lives may be compromised. Autobiography, then, is portrayed here as an arena in which individuals struggle for self-possession and self-expression against the constraints of language, genre, and society.
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The Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative (Chap. 3 "Disappearing Acts") » Read Now
by Katherine Fishburn. 202 pgs.

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Offering a revolutionary way of reading 19th-century slave narratives, Fishburn seeks to recover the philosophical foundations of African American literature. Underlying slave narrative is an expression of the problem of physical embodiment; that is, the dualistic thinking of the mind-body division...
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Offering a revolutionary way of reading 19th-century slave narratives, Fishburn seeks to recover the philosophical foundations of African American literature. Underlying slave narrative is an expression of the problem of physical embodiment; that is, the dualistic thinking of the mind-body division. Fishburn's work uncovers the tension between needing to acknowledge the fact of human embodiment and wishing to overcome its consequences in a racist society. One of the strongest points made by this pioneering work is the controversial claim that these slave narratives offer one of the most telling, if largely overlooked, pre-Heideggerian critiques of liberal humanism ever attempted in the West.
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Discussion of Harriet Jacobs begins on p. 374) » Read Now
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. 548 pgs.

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This important book challenges many current notions about antebellum southern women, white and black. Bound in a web of intimacy fraught with violence, the lives of slave women were intertwined, but they were never linked in sisterhood. Although mistresses and slaves shared a common household, they...
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This important book challenges many current notions about antebellum southern women, white and black. Bound in a web of intimacy fraught with violence, the lives of slave women were intertwined, but they were never linked in sisterhood. Although mistresses and slaves shared a common household, they were radically different from each other, and Within the Plantation Household documents the difficult class relations between slaveholding and slave women.
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