Respond to the following two questions using the listed readings:
1) how do male and female slaves use masking as a means to subvert white authority? How are they different? how are the outcomes different?
Readings used in responses. frederick douglass’s Narrative of the Life, and harriet jacob’s incident in the life of a Slave Girl.
Q.2 What forms of resistance do male and female use in order to fight to keep their identity and subvert authority. How are they different? what are the out comes? better or worse for one group or the same.
Use the same readings to answer the question 2.
Additional material:
On Masking-
-The Mask: metaphor in african american literature for the way in which black people use white expectations as a means to subvert white authority
-Not Just "acting": intentionally playing into racial stereotypes so as to placate a white viewer:
-A form of restiance to power
On resitance:
TWO FORMS:
Violent:
-a) fredreick douglass punching the gu in the lip
Nonviolent:
a) Harriet jacobs: chosing a lover even though its not the lover she wants, by keeping her choice to whom she sleeps with she protects her soul.
b) Frederick Douglass: learning how to read
Note- emphasis the meaning behind what they are trying to protect- it is not so much there bodies, by their souls. The do it to keep the soul at peace. Once broken they are doomed–"don’t Give or sell your soul away, because all that you have is your soul"
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