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Harriet Jacobs: Selected Bibliography

Andrews, William L. "The Changing Moral Discourse of Nineteenth-Century African . American Women's Autobiography: Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley." De/Colonizing . the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography. Ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 225-41.

Bartholomaus, Craig. "'What Would You Be?': Racial Myths and Cultural Sameness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." College Language Association Journal 39 .2 (Dec. 1995): 179-94.

Becker, Elizabeth C. "Harriet Jacobs's Search for Home." College Language Association Journal 35 .4 (June 1992): 411-21.

Benstock, Shari (ed.). The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1988.

Berlant, Lauren. "The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill." American Literature 65 .3 (Sept. 1993): 549-74.
Birney, James G. "Narrative of James Williams," African Repository  Vol. XV, No. 10 (June 1839): 161-66 in The Slave's Narrative.  eds. Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985: 11-15.

Blassingame, John W. "Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems," The Slave's Narrative.  eds. Charles T. Davis, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Braxton, Joanne M. "Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:   The Re-Definition of the Slave Narrative Genre," Massachusetts Review  Vol. 27, No. 2, (Summer) 1986: 379-387.

Braxton, Joanne M., and Sharon Zuber. "Silences in Harriet 'Linda Brent' Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism. Ed. Elaine Hedges and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 146-55.

Burnham, Michelle. "Loopholes of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative and the Critique of Agency in Foucault." Arizona Quarterly 49 .2 (Summer 1993): 53-73.
Cutter, Martha J. "'Dismantling 'The Master's House': Critical Literacy in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 19 .1 (Winter 1996): 209-25.

Dalton, Anne B. "The Devil and the Virgin: Writing Sexual Abuse in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." 1995. Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression. Ed. Deirdre Lashgari. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995. 38-61.

Daniel, Janice B. "A New Kind of Hero: Harriet Jacob's 'Incidents'." The Southern Quarterly 35.3 (Spring 1997): 7-12.

Davie, Sharon. "'Reader, My Story Ends with Freedom': Harriet Jacobs's 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.'" Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and . Narrative Closure. Ed. and introd. Alison Both and U. C. Knoepflmacher. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1993. 86-109.

Doriani, Beth Maclay. "Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century America: Subversion . and Self-Construction in Two Women's Autobiographies." American Quarterly 43 .2 (June 1991): 199-222.

Fleischner, Jennifer. Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives. New York, NY: New York UP, 1996.

Foreman, P. Gabrielle. "The Spoken and the Silenced in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Our Nig." Callaloo 13 .2 (Spring 1990): 313-324.

Foster, Frances Smith. "Parents and Children in Autobiography by Southern Afro-American Writers." Home Ground: Southern Autobiography. Ed. J. Bill Berry. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991. 98-109.

Fowler, Lois J, and David H. Fowler, eds. Revelations of Self: American Women in Autobiography. Albany: State U of New York P, 1990.

Garfield, Deborah M. "Speech, Listening, and Female Sexuality in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Arizona Quarterly 50 .2 (Summer 1994):19-49.

Gray, James L. "Culture, Gender, and the Slave Narrative." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 7 .1, (Spring 1990): 37-42.

Gwin, Minrose C. "Green-Eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives." Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Ed. Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986. 39-52.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Charles T. Davis, eds. The Slave's Narrative.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1985: 32-34.

Harris, Sharon M.. "Early American Slave Narratives and the Reconfiguration of Place." JASAT (Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas) 21 (Oct. 1990):15-23.

Herndl, Diane Price. "The Invisible (Invalid) Woman: African-American Women, Illness, and Nineteen-Century Narrative." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24 .6.

Humphreys, Debra. "Power and Resistance in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Ed. Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. Albany: State U of New York P, 1993.143-55.

Kaplan, Carla. "Narrative Contracts and Emancipatory Readers: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." The Yale Journal of Criticism 6 .1 (Spring 1993): 93-120.

Kaplan, Carla. "Recuperating Agents: Narrative Contracts, Emancipatory Readers, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. " Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice. Ed. Judith Kegan Gardiner. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1995. 280-301.

Lovell, Thomas B. "By Dint of Labor and Economy: Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, and the Salutary View of Wage Labor." Arizona Quarterly 52 .3 (Autumn 1996):1-32.

Mills, Bruce. "Lydia Maria Child and the Endings to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," American Literature,  Vol. 64, No. 2 (June) 1982: 255-72.
 

MacKethan, Lucinda H. "Mother Wit: Humor in Afro-American Women's Autobiography." Studies in American Humor 4 .1-2 (Spring-Summer 1985): 51-61.

Marshall, Elaine. "Irruptions of the Grotesque in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 2 .2 (Spring 1997): 17-34.

McCluskey, Audrey T., ed. New Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Class in Society. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1990.

McKay, Nellie Y. "The Girls Who Became the Women: Childhood Memories in the . Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Mary Church Terrell, and Anne Moody." Tradition and the Talents of Women. Ed. Florence Howe. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1991. 105-24.

Mills, Bruce. "Lydia Maria Child and the Endings to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." American Literature 64 .2 (June 1992): 255-72.

Moody, Joycelyn K. "Twice Other, Once Shy: Nineteenth-Century Black Women . Autobiographers and the American Literary Tradition of Self-Effacement." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 7 .1 (Spring 1992): 46-61.

Morgan, Winifred. "Gender-Related Difference in the Slave Narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass." American Studies 35 .2, (Fall 1994): 73-94.

Nudelman, Franny. "Harriet Jacobs and the Sentimental Politics of Female Suffering." ELH 59.4 (Winter 1992): 939-64.

Nussler, Ulrike. "'Across the Black Body': Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ." Boundaries: Critical Essays on American Literature. Ed. Klaus H. Schmidt, Klaus H and David Sawyer. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996. 55-79.

Rosenberg, Warren. "'Professor, Why Are You Wasting Our Time?': Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the . Teaching of Literature. Ed. Charles Moran and Elizabeth Penfield. Urbana: Nat. Council of Teachers of Eng., 1990. 132-148.

Sale, Maggie. "Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance." American Literature 64 .4 (Dec. 1992): 695-718.

Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body. 1993. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

Sherman, Sarah Way. "Moral Experience in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. NWSA Journal 2 (1990): 167-85.

Skinfill, Mauri. "Nation and Miscegenation: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Arizona Quarterly 51 .2 (Summer 1995): 63-79. Review from Buffalo Americanist Digest: "Harriet Jacobs is caught in more than just the chains of slavery. According to Skinfill, Jacobs' narrative must not only contendwith the ideology of the cult of domesticity and the national desire for a politically unified country, it must also contend with capitalism. Skinfill argues that the national politics of the time spoke for a political harmony which alluded to racial purity, and
the cult of domesticity purported an ideological vision of sexual purity for womanhood. Both groups, then, enslave Jacobs and her narrative to conditions that she cannot meet because of the situation for female slaves. Capitalism in the South saw the female slave's body as nothing more than property, and thus female slaves were not protected under the law against sexual violence. Jacobs, who seeks to win the sympathy of the white, northern women abolitionists, must maintain her purity from the advances of her master by choosing to have sexual relations with another white man. Lyons' essay shows how slavery and more importantly slaves were caught in a double bind between race and class distinctions."

Smith, Sidonie. "Resisting the Gaze of Embodiment: Women's Autobiography in . the Nineteenth Century." American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Ed. Margo Culley. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1992. 75-110.

Sorisio, Carolyn. "'There Is Might In Each': Conceptions of Self in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself." Legacy 13 .1 1996): 1-18.

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: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly . 15 .3 (Summer 1992): 243-60.

Walter, Krista. "Surviving in the Garret: Harriet Jacobs and the Critique of Sentiment." American Transcendental Quarterly 8 .3 (Sept. 1994): 189-210.

Warhol, Robyn R. "'Reader, Can You Imagine? No, You Cannot': The Narratee as Other in Harriet Jacobs's Text." Narrative 3 .1 (Jan. 1995): 57-72.

Winter, Kari J. Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. "Written by Herself: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative." American Literature 53 .3 (Nov. 1981): 479-486.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. "Harriet Jacobs's Family History." American Literature 66 .4 (Dec. 1994): 765-67.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. "Legacy Profile: Harriet Ann Jacobs (c. 1813-1897)." Legacy 5 .2 (Fall 1988): 55-61.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. Women & Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

Zafar, Rafia and Deborah M. Garfield, eds. Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays,  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Zafar, Rafia and Deborah M. Garfield, eds. Introduction. Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Zafar, Rafia and Deborah M. Garfield, eds. "Over-Exposed, Under-Exposed: Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the LIfe of a Slave Girl,"   Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.


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