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Notes Introduction 1.     Jacobs’s decision to hide in a garret situated above her grandmother’s house represented a fissure in the racial system. She remained hidden for the next seven years, reading, sewing, watching her children playing in the street, and sending...

This double operation of imagining and interpreting engages the reader in the task of visualizing the many possible shapes of the identifiable world, so that inevitably the world repeated in the text begins to undergo changes (Budick and Iser 1989, 327). There is a...