AADS/ENGL 3328.01
Hannah Craft’s The Bondswoman Narrative touches on the stories of the dead through the connections the deceased have with the mortal world. The ominous effect of describing the dead acts as a way to emphasize the presence of death on southern slaves and the oppressive feeling that existed beyond the lifetimes of slaveholders. Craft writes…
In The Bondswoman’s Narrative, Hannah tells of the portrait-lined drawing room in her master’s mansion with eerie qualities. His ancestor Sir Clifford De Vincent is said to have “ordered his portrait and that of his wife to be hung in the drawing room, and denounced a severe malediction…against any possessor of the mansion who being…
Throughout the novel Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo Ntozake Shange illustrates the lives of three sisters who work to achieve their dream lives as African-American women in Charleston, South Carolina. While the mother encourages her daughters to pursue education, hopeful that it is a path to marriage and happiness, each of them ends up following different…
In Harriet Jacobs’, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs utilizes diction in an isolated moment to construct the hostile relationship between a slave and her master. Jacobs frames a longer exchange between Dr. Flint and Linda, actively transitioning from dialogue into the narrative form where the reader is guided towards the diction. …
In her novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs reflects on her relationship with her master, using touch to highlight slave women’s experience with sexual abuse. Jacobs’ manipulation of touch both exposes the sexual vulnerability of black women and highlights her cunning defensiveness to the violence of imposed white male dominance. …
Pregnancy can be defined as a critical moment in a woman’s life when they are arguably are considered the most feminine. One of the most basic and primal differences between men and women is a woman’s capacity to bear children and essentially create life. It’s something that happens every day but it’s a process cloaked…
Throughout the autobiography Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, under the pseudonym Linda Brent, Jacobs describes her experiences with the “poisonous fangs” of slavery from her conscious awaral of enslavement at age six, stripping her from the comforts of childhood, to the sexual abuses she was a continuous victim of, all…
In her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs grapples with her violent past –namely the sexual abuse she experiences at the hand of her master, Dr. Flint–in hopes that it will educate her white readers about the pervasive damage that slavery causes. In Chapter V, “The Trials of Girlhood,” Jacobs…
In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs describes the cruelty she is shown at the hands of her mistress, Mrs. Flint. In Chapter VI “The Jealous Mistress,” however, the empathy that Jacobs shows towards Mrs. Flint depicts Flint as not just an enforcer of the institution of slavery, but rather a…
In Chapter I, Childhood, the author begins to introduce her family dynamic. She speaks of her grandmother’s youngest son, Benjamin, describing him, and his experience being sold, as such: “He become a brilliant, good-looking lad, almost white: for he inherited the complexion my grandmother had derived from Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Though handiest then years vintage, seven…