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Reembodying the Self: Representations of Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 1992
- pp. 243-260
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0387
- Article
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Jacobs, recording her former master's threat to rape her, and Angelou, portraying the rape she suffered at age eight, negotiate the challenge of reaffirming their sexual autonomy without reinforcing racist stereotypes that associate the black woman with illicit sexuality.