It is a norm within the greater body of captivity literature for narratives of enslaved people to contain violent and graphic imagery. The accounts of these individuals experiences are threaded with and characterized by violence and suppression. Succumbing to and/or overcoming this oppression is a component the genre. These narratives are often first person and […]

In The Birth of the Clinic, Michel Foucault argues that the development of the “medical gaze” begins around the time of the French Revolution. The “brightness of [this] gaze” comes out of the general Enlightenment project of organizing knowledge, bringing to light what was once shrouded in mystery (Foucault 195). My research project will explore […]