Slave Narrative
Examine Kindred as a neo-slave narrative: explore the connections between Kindred and the slave narratives we read earlier in the semester by Jacobs, Douglass, and Equiano. What traits do these narratives share? How is Kindred differentin other words, what makes it a neo-slave narrative? Ultimately, your essay should make an argument about what Kindredadds to our understanding of slavery. Examine Kindred as a neo-slave narrative: explore the connections between Kindred and the slave narratives we read earlier in the semester by Jacobs(Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl), Douglass (What to the Slave is the Fourth of July), and Equiano (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano). What traits do these narratives share? How is Kindred differentin other words, what makes it a neo-slave narrative? Ultimately, your essay should make an argument about what Kindredadds to our understanding of slavery.