Sökning: "Toni Morrison love"

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  1. 1. Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap

    Författare :Khuteibe Hashim; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Psychoanalytical Criticism; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Julia Kristeva; Beloved; Toni Morrison; Abjection; Semiotic; Symbolic; Imaginary; Mirror-stage; Defense Mechanism;

    Sammanfattning : This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. LÄS MER

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Representations of motherhood in Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Morisson’s Beloved

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Författare :Linnea Hallström; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Motherhood; Erdrich; Morrison; feminist theory;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a comparative analysis of the African American author Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved and the Native American writer Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine. The focus of this essay will be the theme motherhood. LÄS MER

  5. 4. How Narrative Devices Convey the Theme of Love in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Författare :Linnea Lindberg; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Toni Morrison; The Bluest Eye; Pecola Breedlove; theme; love; narrative device; narrator; narration;

    Sammanfattning : This essay focuses on the way in which three narrative devices expand upon three types of love depicted in Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye. The three narrative devices examined in this essay are narrator, paratext and the irony of the Breedlove family name. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Infanticide Uncondemned: Reflections on Trauma in Morrison’s "Beloved"

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Lotta Sirkka; [2011-07-04]
    Nyckelord :Toni Morrison; Beloved; trauma; remorse; maternal love;

    Sammanfattning : This essay sets out to prove how the story of infanticide in Morrison’s Beloved was not condemned by community and how the communal response implicitly ratified the murderous mother’s remorselessness. I refute the main character’s maternal love as a driving force for the killing and claim that the chronic trauma of slavery has left her incapable of having any feelings, which affects her loving her children and leaves her unable to feel remorse for the murder she committed. LÄS MER