SOLITUDE AND LONELINESS IN FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HARRIET JACOBS’ INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
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This study is a psychoanalytic interpretation of Frederick Douglass‘
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs‘
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in relation to solitude and
loneliness. This is born out of the fact that previous studies in Slave
Narratives have focused more on sociological aspect of slavery. This
study examines solitary and lonely African American slave characters
under trauma in the two texts and reveals how they psychologically cope
and react in solitude and loneliness in their daily experiences. The
specific objectives of the research are to demonstrate that slave
narrative is an apt literary discourse for examining African American
slaves‘ experience and that although solitude relieves the slave
characters from social anxiety, it however, brings to the fore
psychological conflicts in the slave characters. In the case of
loneliness, a psychologically painful experience, it results into the
loss of self, social fragmentation and despair. The study combines both
the qualitative research methodology and interdisciplinary approach as
methodology, in addition to the use of secondary sources. The study
discovers that the slave characters lacking a social support base,
exhibit neurotic trends and coping strategies that hold them back and
hamper their progress. Consequently, they evince either a movement
against, or away and towards other strategies. Male slave characters, on
the one hand, exhibit a movement away and against others strategies by
evading social network. Female slave characters, on the other hand,
exhibit movements toward and away from others strategies by both evading
and liking social contact - confirming the notion that male slave
characters fight a lonely, aggressive plight to freedom while female
slave characters identify with their respective family in their plights.
The study explores Freudian and Horneyan strands of psychoanalysis in
examining the characters‘ personality disorder.
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