Sökning: "Black motherhood"

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1. 1. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Sara Calmius; [2024]
   Nyckelord :Resistance studies; Everyday resistance; Harriet Jacobs; Black motherhood; Antebellum America; Slavery;

   Sammanfattning : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. LÄS MER

3. 2. Traces of the Past : Reclaiming Feminine and Maternal Identity in the Wake of Slavery, as Portrayed in the Novels Beloved and Jazz.

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Ira Elaika Konduk; [2023]
   Nyckelord :motherhood; individuality; mutuality; African Americans; Black feminist criticism;

   Sammanfattning : Using Black feminist criticism, this study will examine the influence of the multifaceted yet simultaneous system of oppression on individuality and mutuality in the aftermath of slavery, as depicted in Toni Morrison’s works in Beloved and Jazz. Furthermore, this essay will explore the effects of the intersecting system of oppression on the characters’ identity formation. LÄS MER

4. 3. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Bäckman Ellen; [2023]
   Nyckelord :The Color Purple; abuse; feminism; compulsory heterosexuality; lesbianism;

   Sammanfattning : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. LÄS MER

5. 4. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Hanna Stark; [2023]
   Nyckelord :The Color Purple; Celie; feminism; oppression; gender traits; masculine femininity;

   Sammanfattning : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. LÄS MER

7. 5. Delar av en helhet. Tematisk interaktion mellan berättelserna i Sara Stridsbergs "Darling River"

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Författare :Snöfrid Sävborg; [2022-02-17]
   Nyckelord :Sara Stridsberg; Darling River; Lolita; Teman; Interaktiva metaforer; Themes; Interactive metaphors;

   Sammanfattning : This essay aims to examine how the different storylines in Sara Stridsberg’s "Darling River" interact and illuminate one another. To achieve this, it uses Max Black’s theory of interactive metaphors, and focuses on three thematic clusters: the sexualised child, victims, and perpetrators; captivity, freedom, and loneliness; and motherhood and motherlessness. LÄS MER