Sökning: "Toni Black"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 uppsatser innehållade orden Toni Black.

1. 1. Salt och Peppar : En läsning av Toni Morrisons novell Recitatif utifrån det teoretiska perspektivet dekonstruktion

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

   Författare :Sofia Benczy; [2024]
   Nyckelord :Toni Morrison; Recitatif; Derrida; Deconstruction; Metaphysics; Binary opposition; Non-contradiction; Dialectical differences; Overturning; Displacement; Toni Morrison; Recitatif; Derrida; Dekonstruktion; Metafysik; Binära motsättningar; Motsägelselagen; Dialektik; Omvälvning; Förflyttning;

   Sammanfattning : In this paper I’m studying Toni Morrison’s short story Recitatif (2022) through the perspective of deconstruction. I theorise about conceptual meanings and differences that occur and can be found in structures. LÄS MER

3. 2. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Claudia Bern; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. LÄS MER

4. 3. 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

5. 4. Intersectional Perspectives in The Bluest Eye and “Recitatif”

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

   Författare :Victoria Helin; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye; “Recitatif”; Intersectionality; white privilege; essentialism; white beauty standards; black female subjectivity;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines intersectionality, white privilege and essentialism in Toni Morrison’s stories The Bluest Eye and “Recitatif”. Moreover, intersectional markers are taken into consideration to analyze how the characters are advantaged or disadvantaged in the white dominant society of the two novels. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Stains of Colourism and Shame : An Exploration into Toni Morrison's novel God Help the Child 

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Juliette Thompson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :self-esteem; racist shaming; colourism; passing; internalised racism and coping mechanisms;

   Sammanfattning : In this essay we will analyse Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (2015), to show how colourism and racist shaming, an ordeal that began with slavery, has continued to affect the lives of the characters Sweetness and her daughter Bride, two black women living in America. These negative ideologies, which are pervasive in American society, have been internalised and created a low self-esteem in both characters. LÄS MER