![]() ![]() As a methodology, this thesis uses an intersectional paradigm of race, gender, class and sexuality to reveal the close connection between gender and identity that underscores the development of a new and empowered selfhood. ![]() This study argues that through writing their autobiographies as freed persons, these two narrators navigate through and overcome racist and sexist constructions of their genders in order to create new and empowered identities. This study analyzes two widely known slave autobiographies of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) and Harriet Ann Jacobs's Incidents in the Life ofa Slave Girl. Dismantling slavery: gender and identity in the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, 2005Īfrican-American slave autobiographies, commonly known as slave narratives, reflect the soul and spirit of an oppressed people. ![]()
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