Traumatic Experience in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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The present research work explores the tormented state of the protagonist
Linda Brent in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl.Linda Brent
undergoes series of physical, mental and emotional torture from her master in the
form of sexual harassment, violence and distorted family relationship which are the
setbacks of slavery. She composes her own songs and hymns which represent her
innermost emotions towards slavery. It expresses traumatic experiences of the slave
girl Linda Brent who undergoes trauma throughout her life because of her direct
personal experience of the corrupting influence and the psychological abuses of
slavery.