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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"jackie kay"”.
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Between generations: the construction of mother-daughter relationships in the work of black women playwrights in Britain
… J. B. Rose, Tanika Gupta, Rukhsana Ahmad, Jackie Kay, Grace Dayley, Jacqueline Rudet, Maria Oshodi and Zindika2. My thesis is thus about the construction of mother-daughter relationships as presented in the work of these playwrights. It places particular emphasis on how mothers and …
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
… Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk. The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical …
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TRANSNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES: AURAL AESTHETICS AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC FICTION
… in literature. In Chapter Three, I argue that Jackie Kay in <italic>Trumpet</italic> (1999) and Paule Marshall in <italic>The Fisher King</italic> (2000) represent the jazz-inflected solo as a means through which their characters build individual identities that challenge notions of an …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… of Scottish folk music and "American" jazz in Jackie Kay‘s novel Trumpet. I claim that Kay finds a model for her protagonist, Joss Moody, in African American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and an aesthetic corollary for a "more fluid" conception of identity in the subgenre he helped establish – …
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Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World
… of Scottish folk music and "American" jazz in Jackie Kay‘s novel Trumpet. I claim that Kay finds a model for her protagonist, Joss Moody, in African American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and an aesthetic corollary for a "more fluid" conception of identity in the subgenre he helped establish – …