Above is a picture of Edenton, NC, the town where Harriet Jacobs was a slave.
Good evening :)
How are your papers coming along? (I've noticed that they are starting to arrive.)
On Wednesday, we will begin Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Note that, in her narrative, she refers to herself as Linda Brent.
Here is a blog entry from 2008:
Sabina's handout is also useful.
Here are a few more questions for you and your journal.
-- How is your journal helping you with the second half of the semester?
-- How is your journal better than it was in the second half of the semester? How is it worse?
-- What is it like to return to the slave narrative?
-- What is it like to return to non-fiction?
-- Discuss the readings by Jacobs, Fuller, Fern, and Stowe. What do they tell you about women's writing in the 1800s? Why?
-- How does Harriet Jacobs describe her childhood?
-- How has slavery affected her?
-- How does she argue for her humanity? her womanliness?
-- Compare/contrast the life of a poor white person with the life of a slave.
-- Compare/contrast the urban North with the rural South.
-- Harriet Jacobs' narrative was published in the 1860s. How does it reflect its near-belatedness?
-- Discuss Harriet Jacobs' relationships with her family.
-- Discuss her relationships with her masters and mistresses.
-- What does Incidents add to our examination of American identity? American literature?
I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing what you have to say!
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