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  • Who We Are and Will Be

    Creator:
    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
    Abstract:
    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Linda C. Jackson for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in English, English, and

  • Bildungsroman in contemporary black women's fiction

    Creator:
    Carey, Cecelia V.
    Abstract:
    Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and the world" (13). The Bildungsroman surfaced in German literature as a secular ideal with the

  • Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

    Creator:
    Spencer, Megan
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...
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    Masters Thesis
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    given text, suggesting an epistemology that is rooted in the potential of literature to make us feel