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  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

  4. 3. Visualisering av tystade historier - En dekolonial kulturanalys av verket I firandet av vår kamp finns deras undergång

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Jennifer Turano; [2023-08-09]
    Nyckelord :Memorials; Whiteness; Non-whiteness; Decolonial artivism; Decolonial theory; Post-immigrant generations; Racism; Memory;

    Sammanfattning : The dominant narrative of history, prevalent in Sweden, is of a country which has no structural racism and that had no part in the colonization of the Americas or in the transatlantic slave trade. This is far from the truth, and this study connects Sweden’s role in the slave trade and as a country with colonial ambitions, as well as its history of racial biology, with the racialization of non-white bodies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. La condition féminine dans Ombre sultane d’Assia Djebar et L’Interdite de Malika Mokeddem. Une analyse narratologique et sociocritique des deux romans

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Isabelle Giovannini; [2023-02-09]
    Nyckelord :Condition féminine; vision de la société; émancipation; liberté; solidarité; narrateurs; désignation des personnages;

    Sammanfattning : Novels investigate mankind and the world. Through the comparative study of two novels, Ombre sultane by Assia Djebar and L’Interdite by Malika Mokeddem, we intended to analyze how the two texts depict the social hierarchy in Algeria in the end of the 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Using Frederick Douglass’s Autobiography to Promote Cultural Awareness

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Manuella Jabra; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Slave narrative; intercultural language teaching; autobiography;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines in what ways Frederick Douglass’s autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave can be used to promote cultural awareness in the English subject of Swedish upper secondary school. To explore this question, the essay uses the concepts from Byram et al's. LÄS MER