B. Comparative Essays
1. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
-Narrative tecniques in Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass
-Denouncing slavery in of the Life of a Slave Girl and Olaudah Equiano’s The
Life of Olaudah Equiano
2. Clotel or the President’s Daughter
-Deconstructing sentimentality in Clotel or the President’s Daughter and
Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces
-Social involvement in Clotel or the President’s Daughter and Frances Harper’s
Iola Leroy
3. Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
-Mulatto/black identity in Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Booker T.
Washington’s Up from Slavery
-Communal autobiography in Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and W. E.
B. DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk
4. Plum Bun
-Mulatta image in Plum Bun and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
-Female subjectivity in Plum Bun and Nella Larsen’s Passing
5. Invisible Man
-Violence and resistance in Invisible Man and Richard Wright’s Black Boy
-Urban enclosure in Invisible Man and Ann Petry’s The Street
6. The Women of Brewster Place
-Female bonding in The Women of Brewster Place and Alice Walker’s The
Color Purple
-The City in The Women of Brewster Place and Paule Marshall’s Browngirl,
Brownstones