Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Modern Language Association of America (Verlag)
978-1-60329-655-7 (ISBN)
One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and her escape to the North, the work evokes sympathy for Jacobs as a woman and a mother. Today, it continues to inform readers about gender and sexuality, power and justice, and Black identity in the United States.
Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses different editions of the work and suggests background readings. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," explore Jacobs's literary techniques and influences, drawing on autobiography theory, medical humanities, and theology, among other perspectives. Contributors also propose pairings with historical and recent literary works as well as teaching approaches involving visual arts, geography, archives, digital humanities, and service learning.
This volume contains discussion of William Wells Brown's Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself; Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall; Richard Hildreth's The Slave, later republished as Archy Moore; Herman Melville's Typee; Toni Morrison's Beloved; Dolan Perkins-Valdez's Wench; Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson; Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad; and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig.
Part One: Materials
Introduction
Further Reading for Students
Editions and Adaptations
The Instructor's Library
Part Two: Approaches
Introduction, by Lynn Domina
Thematic Approaches
Peeping through the Loopholes of Shame and Silence toward Freedom and Wholeness while Teaching Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Marilyn Judith Atlas
Teaching Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in Historical Context, by Jolene Hubbs
Reanimating the Unsexed: Using Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlto Recast the Black Body and Redesign Black Female Sexuality, by Ashley Burge
Exploring the Double Consciousness of Harriet Jacobs through Incidents in Her Life, by Chereka Dickerson
"Reader, Be Assured This Narrative Is No Fiction": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as Rhetorical Theory, by Corrie Catlett Merricks
Teaching Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as a Southern Gothic Text, by Amy Schmidt
Health and Illness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Josh Doty
Blind Doctors of Divinity: Theological Concepts in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Clark Moreland and Abbey Whigham
Intertextual Approaches
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Eric Sterling
Truth and Fiction: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and the Question of Genre, by John Hay
Incidents in the Life of Archy Moore: Harriet Jacobs and Richard Hildreth, by Carl Ostrowski
Investigating Childhood Injustice: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Jericho Williams
A Pivotal Text: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in a Narratives of Slavery Course, by Amina Gautier
Reclaiming the Role of the Enslaved Motherin Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, by Jennifer L. Hayes
From Celia to Cyntoia: Between Love and the Law in Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Perkins-Valdez's Wench, by Colleen O'Brien
Lock and Key: Systemic Literacy and Dialectical Reading in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Ingrid Diran
From Harriet Jacobs to Assata Shakur: Connections between Past and Present, by Kimberly Southwick-Thompson
Teaching Strategies
Repetition and History in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Molly Ball
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in an American Literature Survey Course, by Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
"Home, Sweet Home": The Melodrama of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Alex W. Black
Beloved in the Attic: Harriet Jacobs's Confinement, by Barbara Eckstein
"Future Generations Will Learn from It": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the Archives, by Carrie Johnston
"Something Akin to Freedom": Recalibrating Conventions in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Maura D'Amore
"Another Link to Life": Black Feminist Geography, the Digital Humanities, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Kristin Moriah
Contextual Approaches
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in a Gender and Women's Studies Course: Students as Agents of Change, by Heidi M. Hanrahan
Seeing a "True and Just Account": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Visual Culture, by Melissa J. Lingle-Martin
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Literature by Women, by Lorraine Dubuisson
Notes on Contributors
Survey Respondents
Works Cited
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Approaches to Teaching World Literature S. |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 map |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60329-655-7 / 1603296557 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60329-655-7 / 9781603296557 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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