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Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative: The Black Female Slave Redefining American History
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This essay explores the ways in which Hannah Crafts uses the black female slave’s voice to manipulate and subvert the existing system of white patriarchy in nineteenth century America. The Bondwoman’s Narrative (c.1850s)is the first novel by a black female slave, which remained unpublished for 150years until it was discovered by Henry Louis Gates in 2001. Just as Gates revives the novel from its long silence, Hannah the narrator conjures up the ghostly presence of female black slaves who have been ignored in American history. Using and extending Toni Morrison’s concept of the“ ghosts in the machine,”this study argues that The Bondwoman’s Narrative is a literary attempt to conjure up the most invisible, silenced black female slave in white patriarchal America. Rose’s ghostly curse against her oppressor and Hannah’s correlated narrative both serve to destroy the Lindendale dynasty:the symbolic white patriarch of nineteenth century America. Using the narrative process of "rememory," Hannah reiterates black female slaves’ collective experiences, thereby restructuring American history to the perspective of a female slave. Crafts the writer also uses the white lawyer Trappe, the “nut and bolt” of the very mechanism of the white patriarchal lineage, to internally deconstruct the absurdity of its system from the inside. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, therefore, redefines the white patriarchal lineage as an oppressing machinery and finally reinforces the black female slave’s voice firmly within American history.
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This essay explores the ways in which Hannah Crafts uses the black female slave’s voice to manipulate and subvert the existing system of white patriarchy in nineteenth century America. The Bondwoman’s Narrative (c.1850s)is the first novel by a black female slave, which remained unpublished for 150years until it was discovered by Henry Louis Gates in 2001. Just as Gates revives the novel from its long silence, Hannah the narrator conjures up the ghostly presence of female black slaves who have been ignored in American history. Using and extending Toni Morrison’s concept of the“ ghosts in the machine,”this study argues that The Bondwoman’s Narrative is a literary attempt to conjure up the most invisible, silenced black female slave in white patriarchal America. Rose’s ghostly curse against her oppressor and Hannah’s correlated narrative both serve to destroy the Lindendale dynasty:the symbolic white patriarch of nineteenth century America. Using the narrative process of "rememory," Hannah reiterates black female slaves’ collective experiences, thereby restructuring American history to the perspective of a female slave. Crafts the writer also uses the white lawyer Trappe, the “nut and bolt” of the very mechanism of the white patriarchal lineage, to internally deconstruct the absurdity of its system from the inside. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, therefore, redefines the white patriarchal lineage as an oppressing machinery and finally reinforces the black female slave’s voice firmly within American history.
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