Tweedy, Clarence W. “Splitting the ‘I’: (Re)Reading the Traumatic Narrative of BlackWomanhood in the Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley.” Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity, Spring 2011, pp. 20–30. EBSCOhost.
O'Malley, Maria. "Imagining Massachusetts: political geography and sexual control in Harriet Jacobs's 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.'." Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 46, no. 1, 2016, p. 39+. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Deng, Chiou-rung. "Resisting sympathy, reclaiming authority: the politics of representation in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Tamkang Review, vol. 41, no. 2, 2011, p. 115+. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Carson, Sharon. "Dismantling The House of the Lord: Theology As Political Philosophy in Incidents in the Life of a..." Journal Of Religious Thought51.1 (1994): 53. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 21 Sept. 2015.
Harriet Jacobs's 1861 fictionalized autobiography, 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,' critiques the racism of American Christianity by representing the work's protagonist in a crisis of faith that is resolved only when she shuns the submissive Christianity recommended by the white church and adopts in its place a radical black Christianity.
LeRoy-Frazier, Jill. "Reader, My Story Ends With Freedom:" Literacy, Authorship, And Gender In Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl." Obsidian III 5.1 (2004): 152-161. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 21 Sept. 2015.
This essay focuses on the slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself" by Harriet Jacobs. Problems confronted by Jacobs because of the constraints of her gender; Information on the novel written by Frederick Douglass in 1845, which critics have conventionally focused on; Importance of literacy to the sense of identity of Linda Brent, Jacobs' pseudonymous narrator.
Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-Taught : African American Education In Slavery And Freedom. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 21 Sept. 2015.
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans'relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.
Riemer, James D. "Harriet A(nn) Jacobs." American Women Prose Writers: 1820-1870. Ed. Amy E. Hudock and Katharine Rodier. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 239. Literature Resource Center. Web. 21 Sept. 2015.
Sekora, John. "Harriet Jacobs." Cyclopedia Of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition (2003): 1-2. Literary Reference Center Plus. Web. 21 Sept. 2015.
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Around Rochester Spiritualism, Reform, and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl MLA (Modern Language Assoc.) (in John J. Kucich. Ghostly Communion : Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Dartmouth Colle by "Author David Reynolds talks about the manuscript written by former slave, Harriet Jacobs. Also, Mende Nazer tells her personal story of slavery. As a child, she was abducted from her village in Sudan." (summary from NPR site).
Whitsitt, Novian. "Reading Between The Lines." Frontiers: A Journal Of Women Studies 31.1 (2010): 73-88. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 21 Sept. 2015.
The article offers an alternate reading of the autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," by Harriet Jacobs, writing under the pen name Linda Brent. The author asserts that the historical accuracy of the lack of sexual relationship between Jacobs and her owner Dr. James Norcom, referred to as Dr. Flint in the book, is misrepresented for her intended Victorian woman audience, but was actually consummated. The author refers to hidden messages in the text which indicate Jacobs was sexually abused, which resulted in pregnancy and her subsequent liaison with neighboring Mr. Samuel Sawyer, known in the book as Mr. Sands (annotation from publisher).
Wolfe, Andrea Powell. "Double-Voicedness In "Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl": "Loud Talking" To A Northern Black Readership." Atq 22.3 (2008): 517-525. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 21 Sept. 2015.
In her 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' (1861), Harriet Jacobs uses "double-voicedness" to prepare Northern blacks to fight for their rights for equal treatment by their white neighbors without offending white sensibilities. Using a variety of tropes, Jacobs engaged in literary "loud-talking" as a form of reaching black audiences through words ostensibly directed to northern whites (annotation from publisher).