SexViolHist Bib: Victims: Narratives: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

»Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs's life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels "to address race and gender issues." She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children when their children might be sold away.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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Chronological Index: Modern History: 19^th Century, Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | Topical Index: Cases: Real Victims: Harriet Jacobs; Types: General: Rape; Victims: Social Status: Slaves

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

a) Primary Sources

[Info] Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Boston 1861.

[Info] Jacobs, Harriet A. The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. London 1862.

[Info] Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Cambridge 1987.

b) Secondary Sources

[Info] Chavers, Linda. »Centering Black Women in the Classroom: Teaching Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl after #MeToo.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. New York 2021: 339-350.

[Info] Clarey, Chelsea. The Metonym of Edenic Masculinity: Depictions of Male-Male Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Property. M.A. Thesis, Clemson University, 2015.

[Info] Dalton, Anne B. »The devil and the virgin. Writing sexual abuse in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.« Violence, silence, and anger. Women’s writing as transgression. Edited by Deirdre Lashgari. Charlottesville 1995: 38-61.

[Info] Garfield, Deborah M. »Speech, listening, and female sexuality in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.« Arizona quarterly 50 (1994): 19-49.

[Info] Greeson, Jennifer R. »The "mysteries and miseries" of North Carolina. New York City, urban gothic fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.« American literature 73 (2001): 277-309.

[Info] Marshall-Scott, Latasha C. Jacobs and slave law. Psychoanalyzing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. M.A. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, 2003.

[Info] Vermillion, Mary. »Reembodying the self. Representations of rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.« Biography 15 (1992): 243-260.

II. Speaker Index