In "Playing Dead: Harriet Jacobs's Survival Strategy In Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl” author Georgia Kreiger argues that: …Jacobs tenders a common currency among abolitionists and slave narrators by figuring the central event in the narrative as a death and resurrection and that by doing so she creates a text that points out the extent to which resistance both to slavery and to ideologies of ideal womanhood and motherhood may involve, paradoxically, a submission to both. (Kreiger 607)
In her thesis she puts it together by explaining that death and resurrection as a main focal point of Harriet Jacob’s narrative for, example—Kreiger uses Jacob’s metaphor of death when Linda Brent feels as though she has died due to being