Sökning: "Toni White"

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  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. 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

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. Anti-Oppressive Education and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Ala Rad; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Oppression; Privilege; Racism; Other; The Bluest Eye; Toni Morrison; Anti-oppressive education; Kumashiro;

    Sammanfattning : The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970, written by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, deals with issues of race, racial self-loathing, white hegemony and abuse in many different forms. Implicit in the novel is the dual relationship between oppression and white hegemony, which is embedded in many social structures Morrison portrays. LÄS MER