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Scratching where it itches in the autobiographies of Harriet Jacob's incidents in the life of a slave girl and Bhanu Kapil's SchizophreneThango, Linda Thokozile January 2017 (has links)
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Johannesburg, 2017 / Set within a revisionist and feminist context, this thesis seeks to draw parallels in the
autobiographical texts of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) written by
an African American ex-enslaved and Schizophrene (2011) penned by Bhanu Kapil, a British
born Asian American, a descendant of a generation that live (d) through/with ‘what happened in
a particular country on a particular day in August 14th 1947’ (Quaid). These literary
representations will constitute the corpus of this research paper as it attempts to examine how
these autobiographies draw attention to and break the notion of prevailing dominant geographies
of oppression. In both texts, the authors juxtapose appropriation and hegemony with an
alternative literary geographic narrative that seeks to recuperate the liminal (black) body and
psyche. This research paper will seek to explore the multiple and interrelated ways in which
both authors employ certain strategic mechanisms to re-appropriate tools of social power, thus
exposing the frailties of their respective oppressive histories by disrupting their continued, albeit
imagined stronghold on them. In employing their autobiographies as anthropological arsenals,
these authors seem to demonstrate the manner in which history has attempted through its
numerous sites of oppression not only to construct black victims and mere black bodies but also to un-write and evacuate its untidiness. These autobiographies will be employed to reconstruct
and re-imagine the authors but symbolically the collective black body as more than objects but
rather as humans with subjectivities and self-assertion. The paper further seeks to understand
how these autobiographies tend to a vicious past of slavery and partition and how they translate
these memories, remembering the depth of their experiences whilst also being haunted by their
contemporary echoes. An accent will be given to the ambivalence, perversions and anxieties of
these autobiographies. / XL2018
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In search of the self: An analysis of Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Ann JacobsRoddy, Rhonda Kay 01 January 2001 (has links)
In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publication of Jacobs' narrative, a discussion of the history of the slave narrative as a genre, and a discussion of the history of Jacobs' narrative.
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