Rafia Zafar

Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl : new critical essays

Introduction: over-exposed, under-exposed: Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rafia Zafar 1. I disguised my hand: writing versions of the truth in Harriet Jacobss Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and John Jacobss A True Tale of Slavery Jacqueline Goldsby 2. Through her brothers eyes: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and A True Tale Jean Fagan Yellin 3. Resisting Incidents Frances Smith Foster 4. Manifest in signs: the politics of sex and representation in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl P. Gabrielle Foreman 5. Earwitness: female abolitionism, sexuality and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Deborah M. Garfield 6. Reading and redemption in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Sandra Gunning 7. Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass and the slavery debate: bondage, family and the discourse of domesticity Donald Gibson 8. Motherhood beyond the gate: Jacobss epistemic challenge in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl John Ernest 9. This poisonous system: social ills, bodily ills and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Mary Titus 10. Carnival laughter: resistance in Incidents Anne Bradford Warner 11. Harriet Jacobs, Henry Thoreau, and the character of disobedience Anita Goldman 12. The tender of memory: restructuring value in Harriet Jacobss Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Stephanie A. Smith Conclusion: vexed alliances: race and female collaborations in the life of Harriet Jacobs Deborah M. Garfield.