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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Literature, African"”.
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Stress, Social Support, And Psychological Well-Being In College Students Attending Majority And Minority Institutions
… report elevated stress levels, it may be that African-American college students are at exceptionally high risk for experiencing high stress levels. This observation is said to be the result of the added burden of minority status stressors. The current study examined stress levels in …
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Identity, Culture, and the Discontents of Hybridity: A Critical Study of the Post -Colonial (Moroccan) Novel
"In Chapter One, I examine how contemporary Arab discourse on the I/Other opposition has not liberated its premises from the fixed Hegelian master/slave dialectic, and thus continues to posit the West/modernity as a stable and homogeneous entity against which everything else, including intellectual …
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En Attendant Kabila: Zairian Literature During Mobutu's Reign
"Zairian literature has been virtually ignored by francophone and post-colonial scholars, yet this marginalized literature offers much insight into the post-colonial quest of becoming. Throughout its history Zairian literature has been inextricably linked to the nation's political climate. During …
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Writings From the Borderzone: Tales of Recuperation and Transgression in the Works of Malika Mokeddem, Calixthe Beyala, and Evelyne Accad
This study is devoted to three Francophone women writers living abroad whose novels reflect the interconnectedness of the world today in that their writing is both multicultural and transnational. In spite of their various origins these Francophone women novelists, Malika Mokeddem from Algeria, …
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
"This study begins with an analysis of an 1890 case study of two pregnant women by Dr. Arabella Kenealy. ""The Talent of Motherhood"" draws on diverse mid-to-late nineteenth-century discourses, and proposes a physiological analysis of motherhood that is predicated upon an attenuated vision of …
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Intelligibility and *Context in Reader Responses to Contact Literary Text
This study thus focuses on both the texts, the reader responses of capable readers to these two texts, and the interaction of the various contexts of reader, writer, and the text in analyzing what is both unique and potentially problematic in the reading of contact literary texts. Utilizing a …
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Popular Tradition in the Senegalese Novel
… concerns has generated a new wave of interest in African literary criticism. Consequently, the socio-cultural approach is being re-examined, but it remains, however, the most widely used form of critical analysis in the study of African Literature. Solomon O. Yasere's concept of "cultural …
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Self and politics in the novels of J. M. Coetzee
… of the subject and the aporiatic plot into South African letters. However, the novels also employ realistically grounded psychological descriptions to describe the fragmentation of liberal ambitions and ideals in the highly polarized social structure of South Africa. Coetzee's novels are …
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Spoken Self: Recognizing, Renaming, and Reclaiming
… their own culture. This study then explores how African-American womens literature can be used to encourage culturally richer classrooms as students, especially African-American girls, discover who they are. I look through the lens of Black Feminist theory because it affords me the opportunity to …
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Obligatory contour principle effects and violations: The case of Setswana verbal tone
This dissertation is an autosegmental analysis of the tonal patterns manifested in the verb of Setswana, a Southern Bantu language spoken in Botswana and South Africa. Verbal tone in this language is very complex because the tonal patterns fluctuate, depending on many factors. These factors …
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The tradition behind the tradition: Matriarchy and the contemporary women writers of Cameroon
… represent the very roots of an innovative literature which would continue to inspire Cameroon's feminist writers. It is a female literary voice which originates from within African culture itself.
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The conception and evolution of characterization in the Zulu novel
… This means one cannot divorce entirely a literature from its past, which is why we accept lyesere's theory that the modern writer is to his indigenous oral tradition trapped as a snail is to its shell. Even in foreign habitat, a snail never leaves its shell behind, (The Journal of Modern …
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May I grow to be as strong as my mother: The storytelling tradition of black women in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States
… of black women from orature to dramatic literature in three situations: Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. The study provides insights into the nature of black women's contemporary orature; a comparative evaluation of black women's orature and literary endeavors within Africa …
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
"The dissertation examines the writing of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee and its postcolonial interventions in modernism and postmodernism. Chapter I, ""The Postcolonial Sensibilities of the Native Alien,"" focuses on current postcolonial theoretical debates on resistance and authenticity; it then …
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The Collision of Cultures in The Novels of Miguel Angel Asturias, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, and Chinua Achebe
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
This dissertation draws on modern theories of the exotic in order to critique racialized, consumer-oriented representations of Arabs. Such representations often betray an exoticist and neo-colonial discursive pattern in which things Arab figure essentially as an index for a threateningly attractive …
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
Summary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novelist whose two volumes of short stories and three novels of purpose depict racial tensions present in the South during the post-Reconstruction era. He addressed a culture dominated by the myth of white …
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A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
… educational fiction constitutes a key strand of African American writing before the Harlem Renaissance.
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