Sökning: "Colson Whitehead"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden Colson Whitehead.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Nyckelord :antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys : The “voice of color” on the impact of the “ordinariness of racism.”

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Författare :Sanne De Backer; [2023]
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    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  4. 3. Historieskrivning i den samtida historiska romanen : En läsning av Sarah Waters The night watch och Colson Whiteheads The underground railroad

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier

    Författare :Mikaela Ehn Svensson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :historiography; the historical novel; contempary literature; Sarah Waters; The Night Watch; Colson Whitehead; The Underground Railroad; Michail Bachtin; chronotope; time and space; historiografi; den historiska romanen; samtida litteratur; Sarah Waters; The night watch; Colson Whitehead; The underground railroad; Michail Bachtin; kronotop; tid och rum;

    Sammanfattning : It has always been important to study history. But what we can’t forget is that there’s more than one way of doing so. One of those is literature. In this thesis I will therefore study two contemporary historical novels: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. LÄS MER