Sökning: "Toni morrison"

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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 Consequences of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved : A Psychoanalytic Reading of Sethe and Denver

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Tina Eriksson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Anxiety; Core issues; Defence mechanisms; Feminism; Freud; Narrative; Psychoanalysis; Repression; Slavery; Trauma;

    Sammanfattning : This essay’s main focus is on Sethe and her daughter Denver in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and how they try to survive the trauma that comes from slavery. By using psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, the essay examines what psychological reactions Sethe and Denver have as two traumatised characters, and what happens to them psychologically when they are forced to face the repressed. LÄS MER

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. 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