Participants
Jennifer EvansHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Born on Mather Air Force Base, California, near Sacramento. I am currently working towards a Magister in American & English Studies as well as German Literature.
I came to Germany as a Program Student through Lewis and Clark College in September of 1996. After finishing the requirements for my Bachelor of Arts in 1997, I decided to go on and work towards a Magister at the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität in Munich. I studied in Munich until the birth of my daughter Elisabeth in 1999, upon which my husband took a job in Berlin and we moved. I picked up my studies again in 2000 at the Humboldt Universität.
I am happy to report I am currently working on my Magister-Arbeit, which will analyze the cult of true womanhood and its affect on and exclusion of black motherhood based on two novels: Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs. I became interested in questions of equality, race, and gender, particularly in regards to black women, after taking a seminar on the same topic. I find the era of slavery in the United States one of the most problematic. Yet, at the same time, writing about the antebellum South is challenging as a white woman, attempting to reconstruct historical questions for slave women and their plantation mistresses.
Paper: "Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace": Revisiting the Bondage of Slavery in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) (Session I)
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