Sökning: "womanism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade ordet womanism.

  1. 1. Kambili’s Journey to Dignity, and Self-empowerment : A Womanist Approach to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    Magister-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Nicky Nahida Lindecrantz; [2022]
    Nyckelord :change; Christianity; dignity; identity; Igbo tradition; interaction; liberal- and radical feminism; mimicry; Nigeria; patriarchal violence; postcolonialism; self-empowerment; womanism;

    Sammanfattning : Using womanist theory as a theoretical framework, this study has analyzed identity formation and self-empowerment. Adichie is considered a feminist writer, but her ideals and ideas are very different from Western ideals and aim to survive and challenge patriarchal culture. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Strength in Numbers : A Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Mårten Wahlström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :The Color Purple; Alice Walker; literature; feminism; feminist analysis; womanism; psychoanalysis;

    Sammanfattning : The Color Purple (1982) is a well-known feminist work of literature written by the ‘womanist’ Alice Walker. This analysis sought to analyse Walker’s novel in order to identify and discuss the criticism of patriarchal power relations in the novel. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Product of Womanism: Shug Avery in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Anna Janusiewicz; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Feminism Black Feminism Alice Walker The Color Purple Shug Avery Womanism;

    Sammanfattning : Feminism in the early 1980's in the United States revolved much around social and cultural matters such as sexual liberation, self- definition and self- realization for women. Derived from these ideas within feminism comes Alice Walker's Womanism, that is the writer's own definition of the strong and independent woman of color. LÄS MER

  5. 4. "Blackness" och "Womanism" : Hur gestaltar Maya Angelous poesi den afroamerikanska språkkulturen samt kvinnan?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Sonja Micucci; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Blackness; Womanism; Maya Angelou; poesi; afroamerikansk språkkultur;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  7. 5. Alice Walker and the Grotesque in The Third Life of Grange Copeland

    Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Författare :Anette Karjalainen; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Alice Walker; grotesque; whiteness; womanism; Bakhtin; racism; US South;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the uses of the grotesque in Alice Walker’s novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Published in 1970 the novel has been subject to various readings by diverse scholars. However, previous research has failed to take into account the displays of the grotesque in the novel. LÄS MER