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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 443-479 |
Number of pages | 36 |
Journal | ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 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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Dive into the research topics of 'Do Black Ghosts Matter? Harriet Jacobs’ Spiritualism'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Prizes
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1921 Prize in American Literature
Forbes, E. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Profiles
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Dr Erin Forbes
- Department of English - Senior Lecturer in African American Literature
Person: Academic