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Filtering by: Creator Bell, Richard Degree Field English Subject African Americans -- Race identity -- United States

Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

Creator:

Aragon, Racheal

Abstract:

The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...

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Masters Thesis

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symbolic4), like the ringing of a bell or drumming of a drum, or by word sounds/onomatapoeia (indexical5