Date of Award
Summer 8-10-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Janet Neary
Second Advisor
Jeremy Glick
Academic Program Adviser
Amy Robbins
Abstract
This article considers historical constructions of power and the narrative as a mode of resistance. Working in different centuries, under extremely disparate circumstances, Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Toni Morrison in her novel The Bluest Eye, utilize specific narrative strategies to challenge and question institutionalized power which is evidenced through their deliberate employment of narrative strategies not only to challenge the institution of slavery or the hegemonic ideal, but also to question the racial and gender oppression systemic to those institutions of power.
Recommended Citation
Molloy, Allyson L., "Harriet Jacobs and Toni Morrison: A Tradition of Narrative Resistance" (2017). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/220
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