This panel addresses the plight of characters in literature who are subject to others' portrayal of them, and either able or unable to rebel and rescript their identities. Chris Ingram looks particularly at writers of the Harlem Renaissance and the roles of African-Americans forging new identities in the north. Danielle Mann considers the representation of women as possessions in British literature, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess."