CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF SLAVE NARRATIVES WRITTEN BY WOMEN
Abstract
The paper is dedicated to the study of slave narratives written by women and to the determination of the main peculiarities that set them apart from the works of the same genre written by men. The main method of analysis is the comparative-stylistic one. The first thing that women writers draw attention to is the impossibility of the complete description female slaves’experience on account of the delicate character of its different aspects. Another peculiarity is connected with the special emphasis that women writers lay on family, and the links with the cultural group, as well as the immense role of oral speech in their lives. Most female slaves form their identity under the influence of their kin and the cultural heritage of their community, besides, faith becomes another consolation in their hard lives.
About the Author
Y. L. Sapozhnikova
Smolensk State University
Russian Federation
Yulia L. Sapozhnikova – Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor at the Department of the English Language and Interpreting
Russian Federation
Yulia L. Sapozhnikova – Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor at the Department of the English Language and Interpreting
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Sapozhnikova Y.L. CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF SLAVE NARRATIVES WRITTEN BY WOMEN. SibScript. 2014;(1-2):160-163. (In Russ.)
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