Sökning: "double-consciousness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 uppsatser innehållade ordet double-consciousness.
1. From Bondage to Advocacy : Gender, Double Consciousness and Abolitionist Persuasion in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitetSammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to explore how the interplay between gender and double consciousness is used as a rhetorical device in Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861). Through a feminist theoretical lens and the concept of double consciousness I provide examples from the text illustrating Jacobs’ strategic use of different narrative techniques to convey her abolitionist message. LÄS MER
2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. LÄS MER
3. Min mor är mitt sanna land : Mödrar, söner och migration i verk av Mustafa Can, Theodor Kallifatides och Ocean Vuong
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The purpose of this master’s thesis is to examine the relationship between mothers and sons in Mustafa Can’s Tätt intill dagarna: Berättelsen om min mor (Close to the days: The story of my mother) from 2006, Theodor Kallifatides’ Mödrar och söner (Mothers and sons) from 2007 and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous from 2019. These novels examine themes of migration and motherhood through the perspective of the sons, who all write semi-autobiographically about their mothers. LÄS MER
4. The African Presence and Limits of Double Consciousness in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River
M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : Set against the backdrop of the Transatlantic slave trade, Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River can be read as a novel which explores severed family ties and the intertwined relationship between the dominant and the subdued within the African diaspora. Questions concerning “race”, identity and representation can be traced in all the narratives and are also the focus of this essay. LÄS MER
5. "I wore my English like a mask" : Språk, identitet och synlighet i Ocean Vuongs On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This essay examines the relationship between language, identity, power and visibility in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). This is achieved by applying post-colonial theories regarding double consciousness, and the construction of an Other. Theories put forward by Spivak and Fanon are also discussed in relation to this. LÄS MER
