Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Barron, Agnel Natasha Author's Email Address agnelbarron81@gmail.com URN etd-07132009-115209 Title REPRESENTATIONS OF LABOR IN THE SLAVE NARRATIVE Degree Master of Arts Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Carol Marsh-Lockett Committee Chair Elizabeth West Committee Member Kameelah Martin Samuel Committee Member Keywords
- Social relations
- Gender complexities
- Power dynamics
- Slave narratives
- Female slave experience
- Dynamics of labor
- Olaudah Equiano
- Labor
- Mary Prince
- The Bondswoman Narrative
- Slave society
- Slavery
- Representations of labor
Date of Defense 2009-07-08 Availability unrestricted Abstract This study examines the slave narratives The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself and The Bondwoman’s Narrative to determine the way in which these texts depict the economics of labor in slave society. Taking into account the specific socio-historical contexts in which these narratives were written, this study analyzes the way in which the representations of labor in these narratives interrogate slavery and address issues relating to the social relations and power dynamics of their respective societies. Emphasis is given to the way in which the gender complexities of slavery merge with the dynamics of labor thereby underscoring some of the peculiarities of the female slave experience.Files
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