Female slave narratives: consistency and permanence: a study of two texts from the XIXth and XXth centuries

• Autor(a) principal: Farias, Adriana Merly
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6445
• topic: African-American literature; Gender; Black identity; Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897. Incidents in the life of a slave girl; Williams, Sherley Anne, 1944-1999. Dessa Rose; Narrativa (Retórica); Identidade (Psicologia) na literatura; Negros na literatura; Escravidão na literatura; Literatura americana Séc. XIX; Literatura americana Séc. XX; Literatura Afro-Americana; Gênero; Identidade negra; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::OUTRAS LITERATURAS VERNACULAS

This dissertation aims to investigate the role of slave narratives as a powerful literary genre in the denouncement of African slavery and in the representation of the black man/woman in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It also aims to analyze the role of neo-slave narratives in the revision of the past and the representation of black identity in the twentieth-century. Both genres challenge their present times by discussing issues of ethnicity and human bondage through a critical approach. In Incidents in the Life of s Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs narrates her experience in slavery, leaving an important legacy not only to History but also to African-American Literature. In Dessa Rose (1986), Sherley Anne Williams revises the past in order to recover slavery memory and rewrite history to examine her present time. Besides, these two authors present matters of gender, bringing feminist issues in their works