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The Attic in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this paper examines the attic or tiny crawl space in which the author was forced to hide for 7 years to escape abuse...

Character Adjustment to Slavery in Octavia Butler's Kindred

person or another, manipulate this situation or another, all in an attempt to ensure her birth. Through all of these mysterious ti...

American Literature and Multiculturalism

In five pages this paper examines how multiculturalism is represented in such American literary works as The Souls of Black Folk b...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Jean Toomer's Fern and Octavia Butler's Kindred

In five pages these works are considered in terms of their dual protagonists' commonality in the characters of Dana and Rufus in K...

Comparative Analysis of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Octavia E. Butler's Kindred

the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...

Kindred by Octavia Butler and the Influences of the Past and Present

less skilled because she is temporary. Another parallel is that most of the workers there do not want to get close to her or make ...

Kindred and Before Night Falls

This is a paper that looks at the elements of empowerment and trauma in Kindred by Octavia Butler and Before Night Falls by Reinal...

'Interior Life' of Slaves and Toni Morrison

As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...

Political Aspects of Slavery

"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...

Questions Concerning Five Works of Literature

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...

Separate Spheres and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Benita Eisler’s The Lowell Offering

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

A Critique of Harriet Jacob's Novel, Incidents From the Life of a Slave Girl.

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and Rufus and Dana's Relationship

small boy, but to insure my familys survival, my own birth" (29). Through the next several years, Dana returns to the Weylin plan...

Slave Narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Arn't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Compared

on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...

The Narrative of Harriet Jacobs

1861). The influence of the Flints: Dr. Flint and his wife were Harriets master and mistress, and they deserve the name Flint for...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In seven pages these 2 different slave narratives are contrasted and compared. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Comparative Analysis of 2 Slave Narratives

and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...

Lessons From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Awakening

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the Theories of Michel Foucault

composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...

Slavery in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

and be taken care of. She does not look off longingly to a freedom without such realities, but she looks to the power of mothering...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

'A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain' by Robert Olen Butler

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure of Butler's short story....

Oral Tradition, Slave Narratives, and White Readers

In five pages this paper discusses how the oral tradition is applied to slave narratives penned by Nat Turner, David Walker, Frede...

The Work of Josephine Butler

ran brothels (The Christian Institute, 2002). "Her speciality was procuring young girls to work in brothels. Rebecca knew all abou...

Octavia Butler's Dawn, Xinogenesis

In five pages this science fiction novel is examined in terms of the relationships between genetically altered aliens and the huma...

Harriet Tubman's Life and Activism

In five pages this paper discusses the life of Harriet Tubman, her life as a slave and her activism such as her Underground Railro...

Comparing and Contrasting Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington

The writer compares and contrasts the lives and work of Harriet Jacobs and Booker T. Washington, and the prejudice they faced beca...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and the Sci Fi Novel's Issues

In five pages this paper discusses religious and social issues as they pertain to this 1993 novel by Octavia E. Butler. There are...