This dissertation argues that the novels of Toni Morrison, Tahar ben Jelloun and Salman Rushdie are neither realist nor anti-realist, nor can they be accurately defined as magical realist. They are better understood as attempts to reimagine the possibilities for realism in a pos…
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Male authors intent on critiquing American racism, specifically William Faulkner and Richard Wright, have been more successful in defining the parameters surrounding the discussion of violence in American society than have their female counterparts. Intent to illuminate the conn…
This dissertation will investigate the nature and meaning of the quest for the female self in Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images, Toni Morrison's Sula and Nawal el Saadawi's Two Women in One. The main goal is to delineate a common experience intensely communicated by women w…
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…
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 …