Playing Dead: Harriet Jacobs's Survival Strategy in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

• Published in: African American review Vol. 42; no. 3/4; p. 607
• Main Author: Kreiger, Georgia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Saint Louis Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2008
• Subjects: Children & youth; Deaths; Females; Ideology; Jacobs, Harriet A (Harriet Ann) (1813-1897); Narratives; Slavery; Tone; Women

Though much has been written about Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl since its twentieth-century re-introduction in print, relatively little critical attention has been given to its author's pervasively morbid tone, which is due in part to her persistent focus on death...