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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Alice Walker"”.
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The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker
… of the development of the quest motif in Alice Walker's novels, from a male quest in the first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, to the female quests which supersede it in the two later novels, Meridian and The Color Purple. In this analysis, brief reference is made to Walker's …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
… borderlands in the fiction of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker. I have three objectives in this inquiry: first, to contribute to a conversation in New Southern Studies; second, to show how women’s bodies constitute embodied borderlands; and third, to show how class, race, gender, sexuality, and …
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The social affirmation of "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker
… "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker. It is pointed out how in traditional Mrican patriarchal societies the relationships between male and female have always been determined by social mores put in place by men. By the same token, there has been a strong tradition in …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the first function of …
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Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
… the United States. For African American writer Alice Walker and Native American author Sherman Alexie the blues trope is a successful literary device in expressing long lost and rediscovered emotions, identities and hopes among an ever growing multiethnic nation.
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The Face You Draw into Your Skin Is Not Your Own
… Felipe Herrera, Khaled Mattawa, Anne Waldman, Alice Walker and Frank X. Walker, Czeslaw Milosz, and Marc Yakich. </p>
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Jiggs and Other Stories
… my preferred authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, John O'Hara and other American writers as well as a panoply of African, British, Irish, French, German and Russian novelists, short story writers and playwrights. The collection is …
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Developing a Vocabulary of Feeling: The Spirituality of Black Feminist Self-Repair
… work of Toni Morrison, Hortense Spillers, and Alice Walker in order to suggest that spirituality can be a useful component of Black feminist self-repair. Within the scope of Black women’s literary history, I argue that Morrison, Spillers, and Walker each functioned as three figures from …
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The politics of visuality in Beloved and The Colour Purple
… and The Color Purple, by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker respectively, authors who write against the template of slave narratives by offering intimate and subjective points of view to inform the story-making process. Drawing on visual theory, I consider the politics of visibility, that is to …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by Alice Sebold, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell, Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne, Jeanette Winterson’s memoir Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? and The Girl on the Train by Paula …
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Rewriting Eastern Wisdom: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from Jack Kerouac to Maxine Hong Kingston
… chapter, "Asian Religion and African Dreams: Alice Walker and Charles Johnson," demonstrates that Walker and Johnson reinterpret African American identity, portraying Hindus and Buddhists as African Americans' spiritual ancestors. My fourth chapter, "Buddhist Nonself and Asian American …
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The Roots of Womanism as Identity, Empowerment, and Liberation for Black American Women: Raciolinguistic Genealogical Exploration
… analysis of womanist thought, focusing on Alice Walker, Katie Cannon, and Clenora Hudson-Weems. Walker popularized womanism. Cannon is one of the earliest and most prolific writers on womanist theology. Hudson-Weems, coined the term Africana womanism. After this analysis, I used …
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Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction: Tensions and Reconciliations
A theory formulated by Alice Walker, womanism focuses on the unification of men and women with Nature and Earth. This thesis explores womanism with regards to its specific concerns with African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation, and points towards its more overarching …
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Gendering the Pulpit: Religious Discourse and the African -American Female Experience
… century writers, Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker, continued the legacy, in their fiction, of reshaping and expanding the boundaries of religious discourse for African-American women as their position in American culture changed. They can be considered the literary daughters of Lee, …
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GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
… focuses on Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, and Alice Walker along with four local activist-writers in Eastern North Carolina, examining connections between identity and writing as a way to better understand genre-fluid rhetorical practices. The organization models genre fluidity by including …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
… <p><em>Violent Oppression: THE COLOR PURPLE Alice Walker</em></p> <p><em>PURPLE HIBISCUS Chimamanda N. Adichie </em></p> <p><em>‘Benign’ Non Violent Oppression: BRICK LANE Monica Ali</em></p> <p><em>The categories of oppression to be discussed in this thesis are 1. Situational domination of a …
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, Louise Erdrich, Alice Walker, Octavia E. Butler, and Amitav Ghosh, among others, revived an American tradition of georgic writings—that is, texts attending to issues of political economy through a focus on relations between human labor and the physical …
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Decolonizing the Mind with Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe: Searching for a Voice in Postcolonial African Literature
… of a language to cultural identity, and, as the Alice Walker discussion willdemonstrate, the ideological conflict between cultural autonomy and cultural chauvinism.</p> <p>A close analysis of the primary works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Chinua Achebe reveals a political imperative from each author. …
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