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A 4
page paper which examines the theories of Michel Foucault’s Panopticism as they relate
to Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” No additional sources cited.
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File: JR7_RAfoujcb.rtf
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at slavery in the United States. In her story we see many themes relating to slavery, all of them important and all of them incredibly powerful. We see themes of
the moral conflict between slavery and Christianity, racism and prejudice based on color, realities focusing on the bond of motherhood, the importance of family loyalty, and issues of abandonment. In
light of such complexity it comes as no surprise that the field of philosophy and sociology could be easily be incorporated into a discussion of the work. The following paper
examines some of Michel Foucaults theories regarding Panopticism as it relates to Harriet Jacobs work. Jacobs and Foucault At one point in Foucaults essay on panopticism he states,
"The constant division between the normal and the abnormal, to which every individual is subjected, brings us back to our own time, by applying the binary branding and exile of
the leper to quite different objects; the existence of a whole set of techniques and institutions for measuring, supervising and correcting the abnormal brings into play the disciplinary mechanisms to
which the fear of the plague gave rise. All the mechanisms of power which, even today, are disposed around the abnormal individual, to brand him and to alter him, are
composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearly a section that can be related to
the notion of enslavement as it occurred in Jacobs time. And, while many different perspectives regarding Foucaults theories can be found in Jacobs work we look at Christianity for a
moment. In one brief look at Jacobs perspective of Christianity as it involves the moral conflict with slavery, she writes: "There is a great difference between Christianity and religion
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