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..., and Gregg Mitman describe as “community” ecology. Later, postwar urbanists such as Jane Jacobs would draw on the authority of community ecology to reckon with the physical and social transformations then being carried out within New York City's urban renewal programs. Offering scientific evidence...

...Anna Stewart Stewart examines the narrative construction of Harriet Jacobs in 1865, when her former editor Lydia Maria Child included a revised selection from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) in The Freedmen's Book , a reader Child was developing to help newly freed slaves learn to read...

...Christy L. Pottroff Abstract In 1860, Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman signed nearly identical contracts with Boston-based publishers Thayer and Eldridge. This article tells the story of Jacobs’s and Whitman’s intersecting journeys to and from Thayer and Eldridge, and considers what this convergence...

...Hannah Manshel Abstract This article reads Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) alongside Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas (2017) to argue that both texts challenge the ideology of property ownership that has long been central to Black and Indigenous subjugation. By reading...

...Caleb Smith This essay examines previously unexplored divisions within the antislavery movement’s published responses to Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . Revisiting Jacobs’s conflict with her editor, Lydia Maria Child, over the suppressed chapter about John Brown, Smith...

... a profoundly visual cultural moment, argued for a visual literacy that both denied the indexical power of white visual practices and embraced the power of the image to make injustice visible. Blackwood's analysis focuses on how texts by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs explore the representational...

...Jacob Rama Berman Duke University Press 2007 ­Jacob The Barbarous Voice of Democracy: Rama American Captivity in Barbary and the Berman Multicultural Specter On 25 July 1785, a Boston schooner named the Maria, bound...

... Jacobs, Mary Prince, Sojourner Truth, and James Baldwin, the essay argues for what it calls the story of the heart : a minoritized account of pain that deforms sentimental language to register at once somatically, mentally, and intersubjectively. Because of its insecure legibility, the story of the heart...

... to explore what recent literary and historical scholarship has largely overlooked. Harriet and John S. Jacobs, Maria Weston Chapman, Sojourner Truth, and Ellis Gray Loring appear alongside a number of largely unknown slave attendants in an essay that explores the complex ways legal discourses circulating...

... admittedly slender potential civil protection as property was eroded when her abuser was simultaneously her owner. This shift in her protections produced a rift in her legal subjectivity through which systems of terror could operate legitimately. Stone closely examines Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life...

... of a Slave Girl, 1861 The extraordinary epigraph on the title page of the first edition of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) makes a startling assertion about the evils of Southern...

... for her, even if the infrastructures that typically sustain life have crumbled. Set in 1980s America, Minari follows Jacob Yi as he moves his wife and children from California to Arkansas to pursue the American dream of owning land and profiting off its bounty. In Arkansas, Jacob grows Korean...

... to burn the paper later to prevent his plan’s discovery. In Frank Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends (1857), a white lawyer steals the last will and testament of his cousin to claim the inheritance of his cousin’s Black children. In Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861...

... not in the lineage of Native Son but in a tradition that would include works by Angelina Weld Grimké, Dorothy West, Nella Larsen, and Harriet Jacobs.3 In Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), both free- dom and captivity are narrativized in terms of Jacobs’s circulation through space...

... V. 1997 . Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Hartman Saidiya V. 2019 . Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval . New York : W. W. Norton . Jacobs...

... the genre of the slave narrative, expansively defined, to represent their childhoods. While I discuss some now-canonical narratives by former enslaved people (Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley), I also draw on a wider archive of lesser-known texts to show how widespread these generic...

... movement of the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth-century publication of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). If some of the urban thinkers in Rowan’s intellectual history are familiar—Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jacobs—details about the context...

...- ingreferences—to John Jacob Astor, to Trinity Church, to ‘‘fears of a mob to payingrent and taxes—suggest a historical subtext that the Wall Street lawyer can only subliminally acknowledge. The tale’s very abstractness...