Voice-Over: Violent Serene (A Novel-Essay) is an intertextual study, in narrative form, of the intimate relations between persons and such cultural objects as written and filmic works. Crossing the genres of fiction, memoir, and textual analysis, this work explores how queer fir…
"269" Result
Sort By:
My particular reading inquiry departs from various reader-based theories to propose a version of reader function predicated on the text's coercive manipulations, a stance somewhere between immersion and a characteristically feminist informed resistance. In this scenario a reader…
In the novels of Toni Morrison, Nawal El Saadawi and Arundhati Roy, torture expresses the violence of slavery, religious fundamentalism and poverty. Rather than simply revealing loss and diminishment, the areas of criticism most literary critics have focused on in the last thirt…
A study of Beloved (1987), Douceurs du Bercail (1998) and David's Story (2001), novels written by Toni Morrison, Aminata Sow Fall and Zoë Wicomb respectively connects three women writers from North America, West Africa and South Africa. This dissertation will analyze how, as bla…
In this dissertation, I argue that contemporary African-American women writers rewrite the biblical narrative in their novels and that this rewriting is a liberatory practice because it subverts and transforms the myths and symbols central to hegemonic discourse. The impetus to …
Examines the individual author's entire body of work and on his/her single works of literature.
"Essays in this volume provide a clear overview of Toni Morrison and her accomplishments to date, beginning with discussions of Morrison's life and influence, continuing with articles on the critical contexts of her works, and focusing on critical readings of Morrison's involves…
"Essays in this volume provide a clear overview of Toni Morrison and her accomplishments to date, beginning with discussions of Morrison's life and influence, continuing with articles on the critical contexts of her works, and focusing on critical readings of Morrison's involves…
ǂThe ǂorigin of others
by Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Morrison, Toni
fromCharles Eliot Norton lectures
0
Type: Book
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency t…
The origin of others
by Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Morrison, Toni
fromCharles Eliot Norton lectures
0
Type: Book
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency t…
The origin of others
by Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Morrison, Toni
fromCharles Eliot Norton lectures
0
Type: Book
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency t…
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency t…
The origin of others
by Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Morrison, Toni
fromCharles Eliot Norton lectures
0
Type: Book
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency t…