Female and Unfree in America: Captivity and Slave Narratives

This study analyses two seminal American memoirs that depict female captivity: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) by Mary Rowlandson and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). My aim is to discuss, using the tools of Critical Race Theor...

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Main Author: Bercuci Loredana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-12-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0004