Double-voicedness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: "loud talking" to a northern black readership

Double-voicing to subtly subvert the conventional depictions of black men and women in sentimental literature as exotic and animalistic, this passage also offers a further example of tropological revision, speaking to Stowe's text by revising her essentialist portrayal of the nature of black pe...

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Published in:	ATQ (Kingston, R.I. : 1987) Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 517 - 525
Main Author:	Wolfe, Andrea Powell
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kingston University of Rhode Island 01-09-2008 University of Rhode Island, English Department
Subjects:	African American literature American literature Autobiographies Biographies Equality Gates, Henry Louis Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960) Jacobs, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet A (Harriet Ann) (1813-1897) Literary devices Narrative techniques Portrayals Sex crimes Slavery Social aspects Text analysis Voicing Women, Black United States
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Summary:	Double-voicing to subtly subvert the conventional depictions of black men and women in sentimental literature as exotic and animalistic, this passage also offers a further example of tropological revision, speaking to Stowe's text by revising her essentialist portrayal of the nature of black people.
ISSN:	1078-3377 0149-9017