Sökning: "Harriet Jacobs"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Harriet Jacobs.

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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER