FEMINISM IN HARRIET ANN JACOB’S INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL Mrs. Jeyanthii Ravichandran Head Department of English St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, (Autonomous), Cuddalore. G.Siva Ranjani M.Phil. scholar, St. Joseph’s college of Arts and Science, (Autonomous), Cuddalore. Abstract Harriet Ann Jacob is an African-American writer, who absconded from slavery and was later disenthralled. Incidents in the Life of a Slave
the globe, the common oppression of slavery connected them. The slaves were taken from their native land, families were left behind, and despair was on the rise. Along with these similarities, differences can be found. However, the similarities that these two groups represented, connect them on a supernatural level through their experiences. Many slaves longed to be free; where as some were not able to cultivate that
The oppressed and the oppressor have the same set of freedoms, but it is what they do with them that can be either immoral or moral. In the atmosphere of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl, Dr. Moreau and Linda both are in situations where their freedoms are questioned by each of their societies. Their situations are vastly different but that does not stop their societies from oppressing their individuality and characterizing their freedom
account of slavery, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs illustrates the “breadth and power” of the ideology of separate spheres in early nineteenth-century America in which traits of motherhood and purity were significantly glorified. It was women’s ultimate goal to keep up with the standards of true womanhood, and most succeeded in becoming true women by adhering to these ideals. However, Jacobs’ own experiences in slavery articulate a very different story about slave women’s relationship