Participants
Jennifer EvansHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Born on Mather Air Force Base, California, near Sacramento. I originally
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
from Lewis and Clark College in English and German Studies (double major) 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 (Libby) in 1999, upon which my husband took a
job in Berlin and we transplanted our "roots" further north. I resumed my
graduate study again in 2000 at the Humboldt Universität, choosing to
continue in Amerikanistik/Anglistik and Neuere deutsche Literatur. I am
currently studying for the battery of exams connected with the completion of
the Magister Artium, and looking for employment.
I finished my Magister-Arbeit in American & English Studies in January of
this year. The title of my paper was, "Reconstructing Motherhood: The
Figure of the Slave Mother in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl (1861) & Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987)". The paper dealt with
the two books, focusing on the protagonists, as a redefinition of motherhood
and womanhood for the slave mother in the nineteenth century American south.
I relied on the primary literature, following the developments of the
protagonists, as well as analysing their figures based on Black feminist
literature. The position of Black (Slave) women in the South in this period
is particularly interesting when asking questions of race, class, and
gender.
Chair: Session II
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