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Siemes, Maaike (2021)

Appropriating a Historical Narrative to Dystopian Fiction: White Feminism in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Bachelor thesis | Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)
This thesis discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) in relation to Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and examines to what extent Atwood used Jacobs’s slave narrative as a template for her dystopian novel. With this comparison, this thesis considers whether Atwood’s novel marginalizes Afro-American experiences of slavery and to what extent The Handmaid’s Tale can be seen as a product of white feminism through a focus on the concept of intersectionality.
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
White feminism
Intersectionality
slave narrative
Author
Siemes, Maaike
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Supervisors
Polak, S.A.
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en