Between the Sublime and the Traumatic: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Toni Morrison's Beloved

Authors :: McCarthy, Lucas
Source :: Papers on Language & Literature. Spring, 2021, Vol. 57 Issue 2, p165, 38 p.
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: Though seemingly counter-intuitive, the violence of enslavement has both sublime and traumatic dimensions that can be considered in relation to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [...]

Subjects :: Beloved (Morrison, Toni) (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself (Autobiography) -- Criticism and interpretation
Sublime, The -- Portrayals
Novelists -- Criticism and interpretation
Psychic trauma -- Portrayals
Languages and linguistics
Literature/writing

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