- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- “The story of a wound that cries out”: An analysis of intergenerational trauma in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, 2021
- Creator:
- Taylor, Adjoa H. A.
- Date of Original:
- 2021-05
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This thesis explores how the institutions of American Slavery and racial oppression created a culture of historical intergenerational trauma for the people of the African Diaspora. This study utilizes the diagnostic criteria of several psychological frameworks to analyze the depictions of trauma reflected in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora. Applying the diagnostic criteria for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, The Four Traumagenic Dynamics model for child sexual abuse survivors (CSA), and Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome to the texts provides an informed literary concomitance between the complex traumas experienced by the protagonists, Linda Brent and Ursa Corregidora, and intergenerational literary trauma theory. The need to employ several diagnostic frameworks in analyzing the texts of these Black women writers validates the desire for the continued evolution and advancement of an intergenerational literary trauma theory specific to the analysis of works authored by Black women writers descended from American Slavery.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2021_taylor_adjoa_h_a
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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