Do Black Ghosts Matter? Harriet Jacobs’ Spiritualism

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Abstract

This essay looks at Spiritualism in Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative to these rethink Orlando Patterson’s influential yet widely critiqued theorization of the social death of the enslaved. It shows that the end product of social death was not silent, passive slaves, but a multitude of voluble, raucous ghosts and other politically potent incarnations of the living dead.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)443-479
Number of pages36
JournalESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Volume62
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Oct 2016

Research Groups and Themes

  • Centre for Black Humanities

Keywords

  • African American Literature
  • Women Writers
  • Religion and Literature
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Agency
  • Literature of Enslavement
  • Spiritualism
  • Black Women Writers
  • Motherhood

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