Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist text. Part 1, "Materials," discusses different editions of the work and suggests background readings. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," explore Jacobs’s literary techniques and influences, drawing on autobiography theory, medical humanities, and theology, among other perspectives.

List of contents

• Part One: Materials
• Introduction
• Further Reading for Students
• Editions and Adaptations
• The Instructor's Library
• Part Two: Approaches
• Introduction, by Lynn Domina
• Thematic Approaches
• Peeping through the Loopholes of Shame and Silence toward Freedom and Wholeness while Teaching Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Marilyn Judith Atlas
• Teaching Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in Historical Context, by Jolene Hubbs
• Reanimating the Unsexed: Using Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlto Recast the Black Body and Redesign Black Female Sexuality, by Ashley Burge
• Exploring the Double Consciousness of Harriet Jacobs through Incidents in Her Life, by Chereka Dickerson
• "Reader, Be Assured This Narrative Is No Fiction": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as Rhetorical Theory, by Corrie Catlett Merricks
• Teaching Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as a Southern Gothic Text, by Amy Schmidt
• Health and Illness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Josh Doty
• Blind Doctors of Divinity: Theological Concepts in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Clark Moreland and Abbey Whigham
• Intertextual Approaches
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Eric Sterling
• Truth and Fiction: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and the Question of Genre, by John Hay
• Incidents in the Life of Archy Moore: Harriet Jacobs and Richard Hildreth, by Carl Ostrowski
• Investigating Childhood Injustice: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Jericho Williams
• A Pivotal Text: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in a Narratives of Slavery Course, by Amina Gautier
• Reclaiming the Role of the Enslaved Motherin Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, by Jennifer L. Hayes
• From Celia to Cyntoia: Between Love and the Law in Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Perkins-Valdez's Wench, by Colleen O'Brien
• Lock and Key: Systemic Literacy and Dialectical Reading in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Ingrid Diran
• From Harriet Jacobs to Assata Shakur: Connections between Past and Present, by Kimberly Southwick-Thompson
• Teaching Strategies
• Repetition and History in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Molly Ball
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in an American Literature Survey Course, by Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
• "Home, Sweet Home": The Melodrama of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Alex W. Black
• Beloved in the Attic: Harriet Jacobs's Confinement, by Barbara Eckstein
• "Future Generations Will Learn from It": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the Archives, by Carrie Johnston
• "Something Akin to Freedom": Recalibrating Conventions in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Maura D'Amore
• "Another Link to Life": Black Feminist Geography, the Digital Humanities, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Kristin Moriah
• Contextual Approaches
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in a Gender and Women's Studies Course: Students as Agents of Change, by Heidi M. Hanrahan
• Seeing a "True and Just Account": Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Visual Culture, by Melissa J. Lingle-Martin
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Literature by Women, by Lorraine Dubuisson
• Notes on Contributors
• Survey Respondents
• Works Cited

Summary

Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist text. Part 1, "Materials," discusses different editions of the work and suggests background readings. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," explore Jacobs’s literary techniques and influences, drawing on autobiography theory, medical humanities, and theology, among other perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn (EDT) Domina
• Assisted by: Lynn Domina (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.07.2024
• EAN: 9781603296557
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-655-7
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories