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"Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist text 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."

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Author:   Lynn Domina
Publisher:   Modern Language Association of America
Imprint:   Modern Language Association of America
ISBN:  

9781603296540

ISBN 10:   1603296549
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   13 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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