Buch(elektronisch)2001

Rethinking the slave narrative: slave marriage and the narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft

In: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies no. 204

Heglar, Charles J.

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Abstract

The African American slave narrative is popularly viewed as the story of a lone male's flight from slavery to freedom, best exemplified by the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845). On the other hand, critics have also given much attention to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), to indicate how the form could have been different if more women had written in it. But in stressing the narratives of Douglass and Jacobs as models for the genre, scholars have ignored the formal and thematic importance of marriage and family in the slave narra