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Simms, Gordon D. "The current growth experience of medium-sized North American Baptistic churches and the teachings of church growth literature on the homogeneous unit principle." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Ennis-Chambers, Sarah. "Birth and After Birth and Painting Churches: Tina Howe's Examination of Love and Savagery in the American Family." TopSCHOLAR®, 1995. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/865.
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Playwright Tina Howe has been quoted as saying that "family life has been over-romanticized; the savagery has not been seen enough in the theatre and in movies . . ." (Moore 101). In two of her plays, Birth and After Birth (1973) and Painting Churches (1983), that savagery appears in the form of name-calling, jealousy, apathy, disregard, and physical and mental abuse. A juxtaposition of the similarities in Birth and After Birth and Painting Churches will explain the "savagery" Howe is examining. The earlier play is written in the surrealistic style of lonesco and Beckett, playwrights who have been a major influence on Howe. The later work is a much more realistic, conventional play. Both center around three-member families (a set of parents and an only child) and take place at a time of significant change. The main focus is Painting Churches and the abuse that lies at the heart of the play. Mags Church (short for Margaret) has come home to help her parents, Fanny and Gardner, pack their things; they are moving from Boston to their summer cottage in Concuit. A promising young artist on the rise, she is also going to paint a portrait of them. But the painting of this portrait will be much more than the creating of a new piece of art for Mags; it will be a very personal and very trying test. Throughout the play, Howe reveals Mags' multifaceted mental and emotional problems and how her mother, while essentially a loving parent, contributed greatly to her daughter's lack of self-esteem and need to mask herself behind her work. She may even be responsible, and this thesis proves that Fanny Church subjected her only child to continuous psychological abuse, creating in her a deep-rooted psychosis. Birth and After Birth, written a decade earlier, examines some of the issues addressed in Painting Churches, and is basically used as backup evidence to help prove my theory.
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Eaton, Kalenda C. "Talkin' bout a revolution Afro-politico womanism and the ideological transformation of the black community, 1965-1980 /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1093540674.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Document formatted into pages; contains 185 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2007 Aug. 26.
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Poikāne-Daumke, Aija. "African diasporas : Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience /." Berlin ; Münster : Lit, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015425726&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Childs, David J. "The Black Church and African American Education: The African Methodist Episcopal Church Educating for Liberation, 1816-1893." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1250397808.
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Perez, Jeannina. "Matrilineal memories : revisionist histories in three contemporary Afro-American women's novels." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1127.
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Jackson, Akia. "The mobility of memory and shame: African American and Afro-Caribbean women’s fiction 1980’s-1990’s." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6962.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the mixed legacy of shame. I work through the interrelationship between productive shame and debilitating shame and a character’s journey through this spectrum. In my research, I define shame not in the pejorative, but rather I repurpose the term to show its beneficiality in reshaping Black female characters during the period of Black Arts and Power Movements in America and the Caribbean. Essentially, my dissertation will argue that although debilitative shame seems overwhelmingly negative for the female characters, gradually they come to reassess this shame as a positive asset that helps them reevaluate societal and nationalistic expectations associated with their Blackness. I seek to redefine the globalized multiple dimensions of shame that Black authors confront throughout their novels because shame involves an often painful, sudden awareness of the self and trauma previously endured.
Thus, the fluidity of Black transnational experiences frame my interrogation of the impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on the cultural history and collective shame of Afro-diasporic descended characters in Morrison’s Tar Baby (1981), Kincaid’s Annie John (1985), Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1987), and Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994). My project complicates mobility by dissecting the disconnections that arise from separation from homelands, family, and cultural familiarity. I analyze the four novels through an ordered methodology of migration, disruption, discontinuity, and the renaming debilitative shame as a positive asset. This methodology informs my argument on the middle ground and Black female characters occupying multiple identities in their movement through different nation-states and empires.
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Sherman, Payet Jeannine. "Le rêve et la magie dans le roman africain et afro-américain." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0023.
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Weimer, David E. "Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society After the State Church." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493395.
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Even as the Church of England lost ground to political dissent and New England gradually disestablished its state churches early in the nineteenth century, writers on both sides of the debates about church establishments maintained their belief in religion’s role as a moral guide for individuals and the state. “Protestant Institutionalism” argues that writers—from Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe to George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell—imagined through literature the institutions that would produce a religiously sound society as established churches began to lose their authority. Drawing on novels and poems as well as sermons and tracts about how religion might exist apart from the state, I argue that these authors both understood society in terms of institutions and also used their literature to imagine the institutions—such as family, denomination, and nation—that would provide society with a stable foundation. This institutional thinking about society escapes any literary history that accepts Protestant individualism as a given. In fact, although the US and England maintained different relationships between church and state, British authors often looked to US authors for help imagining the society that new forms of religion might produce precisely in terms of these institutions. In the context of disestablishment we can see how the literature of the nineteenth century—and nineteenth-century novels in particular—was about more than the fate of the individual in society. In fact, to different degrees for each author, individual development actually relies on the proper understanding of the individual’s relationship to institutions and the role those institutions play in supporting societyEnglish
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Guarischi, Rafael Machado. "A Study of Three African-American Works Within Their Backgrounds." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2106.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é apresentar, discutir e analisar a relação que Cane, de Jean Toomer, Dutchman, de Amiri Baraka e Playing in the Dark, de Toni Morrison possuem com seus contextos no século XX em manifestações artisticas em três gêneros literários distintos. Após construir e delimitar o pano de fundo vivido pelos Afro-Americanos ao longo do século, pretendo analisar cada obra ao período em que foi escrita. Desta forma, a questão central de minha dissertação é como a Literatura produzida pelos Afro-Americanos (representada pelos três textos literários em pauta) dialoga com a realidade vivida por essas pessoas dentro da sociedade estadunidense ao longo do século XX, e como essa literatura funciona como um poderoso instrumento de expressão da ideologia, das questões raciais e dos sentimentos Afro-AmericanosThis dissertation intends to present, discuss and analyse the relation that Cane by Jean Toomer, Dutchman by Amiri Baraka, and Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison, have with their backgrounds during the twentieth century in artistic manifestations of three distinct literary genders. After designing a background of the African-American people along that century, I intend to relate each of the three works to time in which they were written. This way, the central question of this dissertation is how the Literature produced by the African-Americans (represented by those three works) dialogues with the reality lived by those people within the US society during the twentieth century and how such literature works as an extremely important instrument of expression of the African-American feelings, racial concerns and ideology
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Cardaretti, Cristiane Vieira da Graça. "Frances E. W. Harper and Pauline E. Hopkins: the uplifting of black women through literature." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2013. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5322.
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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo apresentar duas influentes autoras afro-americanas do século XIX, Frances E. W. Harper e Pauline E. Hopkins. Ambas as autoras, através de seus romances Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) e Contending Forces: a Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900) respectivamente, entrelaçam ficção e história com o propósito de criar novas alternativas de discurso, afastando-se, portanto, do oficial. Ademais, o presente trabalho propõe demonstrar como Frances Harper e Pauline Hopkins fazem uso do espaço literário com a finalidade de escrever a história do oprimido, permitindo, principalmente, que as mulheres afro-americanas dessem voz as suas experiências e as suas próprias histórias. Assim sendo, a literatura produzida por Frances e Harper e Pauline Hopkins será analisada como forma de empoderamento da comunidade afro-americana, principalmente como forma de aquisição de poder para as Mulheres Afro-Americanas.The present thesis aims at presenting two influential nineteenth-century African American writers, Frances E. W. Harper and Pauline E. Hopkins. Both authors, throughout their novels Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) and Contending Forces: a Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900) respectively, interweave fiction and history in order to create new alternative discourses, thereby, diverging from the official one. Moreover, the present work also aims at demonstrating how Frances Harper and Pauline Hopkins made use of the literary space as a way to inscribe the history of the oppressed, allowing mainly black women to voice their experiences and their own hi(her)stories. Likewise, the literature produced by Frances Harper and Pauline Hopkins will be analyzed as a means of empowerment for African-American Women
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Smyth, Karen Elizabeth. ""What's a Nice Mormon Girl Like You Doing Writing about Vampires?": Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" Saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626647.
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Lourenço, Lucilia Teodora Villela de Leitgeb. "Traduzindo o intraduzível : estudo de duas traduções em língua portuguesa de Beloved, de Toni Morrison." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/114417.
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Este estudo analisa duas traduções em língua portuguesa da Beloved, de autoria de Toni Morrison, em Português do Brasil, uma de Evelyn Kay Massaro (1994), outra de José Rubens Siqueira (2007). Enfatiza as diferenças e/ou semelhanças entre ambas, a partir de um levantamento preliminar das características do dialeto Black English Vernacular, empregado pela autora, e as respectivas traduções desse dialeto. A comparação do original com as duas traduções processou-se com base em postulados teórico-críticos da Literatura Comparada e dos Estudos de Tradução. Em um primeiro momento, examinam-se seleções específicas do uso das formas do Black English Vernacular em detalhes, a fim de verificar a eficiência neste aspecto em ambas as traduções em Português e mostrar os recursos usados pelos tradutores e os resultados obtidos. Após, emite-se nosso ponto de vista sobre a análise mencionada anteriormente, tentando formular uma hipótese geral sobre os fenômenos observados com reflexões sobre os problemas envolvidos na tradução de dialetos.This paper analyses two Portuguese translations of Beloved by Toni Morrison into Brazilian Portuguese, made by Evelyn Kay Massaro (1994) and other by José Rubem Siqueira (2007). It emphasizes the differences and/or similarities between them, based on a preliminary investigation whose main focus was the use of Black English Vernacular used by the author and their respective translations. The comparison of the original work with its translations was based on theoretical and critical postulates of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. At first, specific excerpts of the use of Black English Vernacular forms in the text were selected and examined in detail, in order to establish the efficiency of this aspect in both Portuguese translations and to show the resources used by the translators and the results achieved. In second place, this work presents our point of view about the afore mentioned analysis, trying to formulate a general hypothesis for the observed phenomena. It raises questions about the literary dialects and the problems involved in their translation.
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Abreu, Aline Guimarães Teixeira de. "Celebrando o gênero feminino através da maternidade em narrativas de escravos e posteriores à escravidão." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2006. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=130.
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Um estudo sobre a maternidade como um tema recorrente na Literatura Afro-Americana nos últimos três séculos e isso pode ser observado nas palavras de Harriet Jacobs e Maya Angelou. Em suas obras, respectivamente, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, as autoras posicionam o eu negro feminino no centro de suas experiências e revêem suas memórias passadas. Fazendo isso, elas narram histórias que transcendem as suas próprias e dão voz as mulheres duplamente marginalizadas cujos testemunhos foram excluídos da História oficial e do cânone literário por serem negras e mulheres.A study of motherhood as a recurrent theme in African American Literature in the last three centuries and this may be seen in the words of Harriet Jacobs and Maya Angelou. In their autobiographical works, respectively, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the authors place their marginalized black female self in the center of their own experience and revisit their past memories. By doing so, they narrate stories that transcend their own and voice the double jeopardized black women whose testimonies were excluded from official History and suffocated by the literary canon.
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Thompson, Sheneese. "Oshun, Lemonade and Other Yellow Things: Philosophical and Empirical Inquiry into Incorporation of Afro-Atlantic Religious Iconography." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555573211820986.
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Beck, Myles R. "The utilization of devotional literature to acclimate members to the core values of Oakland Hills Baptist Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Owens, Sarah Elizabeth. "Subversive obedience: Confessional letters by eighteenth century Mexican colonial nuns." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284123.
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Eighteenth century colonial Mexico hosted a wide number of religious women who put quill to parchment and wrote spiritual letters to their confessors. These texts display impressive subversive rhetorical strategies, five of which are the focal point of this dissertation. The three nuns studied in this dissertation are Sor Maria Coleta de San Jose (?-1775), Sor Sebastiana de la Santisima Trinidad (1709-1757) and Sor Maria Anna de San Ignacio (1695-1756). Chapter one examines the spiritual and literary European foremothers of eighteenth century colonial religious women. This chapter examines the life and letters of Radegund (518-587), Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Catherine of Siena (1347?-1380), and Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). Their writings all demonstrate early signs of subversive rhetoric that can be detected centuries later in the nuns' letters examined in this study. The second chapter is divided into two sections. The first part provides an overview of colonial Mexico with a particular emphasis on Mexican nuns and their letters. The second half of the chapter carves out a viable discursive space for nuns' spiritual letters. This section revises and reinterprets the colonial literary canon from a variety of theoretical perspectives including feminist theory and cultural studies. The last three chapters are each dedicated to one of the three Mexican nuns mentioned above. Their letters are analyzed according to the following rhetorical strategies: (1) the rhetoric of humility, (2) the description of penance, (3) the description of fasting, (4) the retelling of visions with Christ, and (5) the retelling of visions with Saint Teresa or the Virgin Mary. In conclusion, due to their precarious situation as religious women under the ever vigilant eye of a patriarchal and misogynist society, these nuns opted to incorporate these strategies within their spiritual letters. Sor Coleta, Sor Sebastiana and Sor Maria Anna deliberately placed subversive rhetorical strategies within their letters in order to express otherwise controversial or questionable ideas.
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Schulz, Frank. "'How can you go to a Church that killed so many Indians?' : Representations of Christianity in 20th century Native American novels." Master's thesis, [Potsdam : Univ.-Bibliothek], 2002. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=97197845X.
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Ruggiero, Diana Mabel. "Más allá del fútbol: La Bomba, the Afrochoteño Subaltern, and Cultural Change in Ecuador’s Chota-Mira Valley." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1273711996.
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Farias, Adriana Merly. "Female slave narratives: consistency and permanence: a study of two texts from the XIXth and XXth centuries." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3839.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar o papel das slave narratives como poderoso gênero literário na denúncia da escravidão africana e na representação do homem negro e da mulher negra nos séculos dezoito e dezenove. Este trabalho também se propõe a investigar o papel das neo-slave narratives no estudo do passado e a representação da identidade negra no século vinte. Ambos os gêneros desafiam seus tempos presentes ao discutirem questões de etnia e subjugação humana, em uma abordagem crítica. Em Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs narra sua experiência na escravidão, deixando um importante legado não somente para a História mas também para a Literatura Afro-Americana. Em Dessa Rose (1986), Sherley Anne Williams, revisa o passado para resgatar a memória da escravidão e reescrever a história para examinar seu tempo presente. Além disso, as duas autoras apresentam questões de gênero, levantando questões feministas em suas obrasThis dissertation aims to investigate the role of slave narratives as a powerful literary genre in the denouncement of African slavery and in the representation of the black man/woman in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It also aims to analyze the role of neo-slave narratives in the revision of the past and the representation of black identity in the twentieth-century. Both genres challenge their present times by discussing issues of ethnicity and human bondage through a critical approach. In Incidents in the Life of s Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs narrates her experience in slavery, leaving an important legacy not only to History but also to African-American Literature. In Dessa Rose (1986), Sherley Anne Williams revises the past in order to recover slavery memory and rewrite history to examine her present time. Besides, these two authors present matters of gender, bringing feminist issues in their works
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Alva, Rodrigo Carvalho. "Zora Neale Hurston & Their Eyes Were Watching God: a construção de uma identidade afro-americana feminina e a tradução para o português do Brasil." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=462.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorA presente dissertação possui dois objetivos principais. O primeiro, presente na parte I, é analisar a construção identitária feminina da personagem principal da obra Their Eyes Were Watching God, de Zora Neale Hurston. Sendo assim, a primeira parte desta dissertação é composta de quatro capítulos, sendo que ao longo dos três primeiros, antes da discussão propriamente dita, o trabalho busca aproximar o leitor da discussão. Para isso, os três capítulos iniciais têm o intuito de deixar o leitor familiarizado primeiro com a autora, depois com suas obras e, por último, com o momento histórico vivido pelos Estados Unidos no período do movimento cultural afro-americano conhecido como Harlem Renaissance. O segundo objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a tradução da obra, Seus Olhos Viam Deus, para o português e, se possível, fazer sugestões para as encruzilhadas e obstáculos tradutórios que porventura tenham sido enfrentados pelo tradutor. Esta dissertação visa com isso apresentar soluções que possam ser utilizadas em futuras traduções de obras de escritoras afro-americanas para o português do Brasil. Portanto, para isso, a segunda e a terceira parte deste trabalho, compostas de mais três capítulos, trazem uma revisão sobre as teorias tradutórias recentes e, em perspectiva inovadora, destacam pontos a serem abordados na discussão
The present dissertation has two main goals. The first, in part I, is to analyze the construction of the female identity of the main character of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. Therefore, four chapters compose the first part of this work. In the first three, before the discussion, the text tries to bring the readers closer to the discussion still to come. In order to do this, these initial chapters aim to make the reader more familiar with the author, then with her work, and, last but not least, with the historical moment in the United States during the period of the African-American cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. The second goal is to analyze the translation of the novel, Seus Olhos Viam Deus, to Portuguese and, if possible, to make suggestions for the translation crossroads and obstacles that the translator might have faced. By doing this, this dissertation aims to present solutions that may be used in future translations to Brazilian Portuguese of works by African-American writers. Therefore, the parts II and III of this work, which are composed by three more chapters, bring a literary review about recent translation theories and, through an innovative perspective, detach a few points which are going to be subsequently discussed.
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Müller, Luciane Oliveira. "Unveiling passing : a reading of Nella Larsen's life story and literary work." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15566.
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Esta dissertação apresenta uma leitura do romance Passing, com o foco na caracterização e enredo a partir da perspectiva de duas questões inter-relacionadas. Primeiro, a leitura examina a questão da maternidade e a questão da raça na caracterização de duas protagonistas, considerando que ambas as questões sustentam uma importância histórica no contexto de vida das mulheres negras daquele período, como os biógrafos de autores testemunham. Segundo, a leitura enfatiza as correlações de enredo e desejo como uma forma de entender o que está em jogo na narrativa. O romance foi publicado em 1929 pela escritora Afro-Americana Nella Larsen durante o movimento estético e cultural chamado Harlem Renaissance, um movimento cujo apogeu na década de 20 do século passado causou um crescimento da consciência social e o surgimento da literatura moderna Afro-Americana. Em uma década, o tema ‘passing’ constituiu um dos tópicos privilegiados em vários romances por escritores Afro-Americanos. Minha análise se sustenta a partir de diferentes fontes: relações entre mãe/filha a partir de Marianne Hirsch e Nancy J. Chodorow; a questão da raça e conflitos de ‘passing’ a partir de Thadious M. Davis, Elaine K. Ginsberg e Martha J. Cutter, assim como enredo e desejo de Peter Brooks. Na interligação de elementos biográficos, psicológicos, culturais e literários, minha leitura apresenta como a novela dramatiza o conflito insolúvel de raça divida – branca e preta – que destaca as lutas e dificuldades dos personagens quando enfrentando o vazio do pertencimento que acompanha a experiência de ‘passing’.The thesis presents a reading of the novel Passing, with a focus on characterization and plot from the perspective of two interrelated issues. First, the reading examines the question of motherhood and the question of race in the characterization of the two major female protagonists, considering that both questions bear historical importance in the context of black women’s lives of the period, as the author’s biographers testify. Second, the reading highlights the connections of plot and desire as a way of understanding what is at stake in the narrative design. The novel was published in 1929 by the Afro-American writer Nella Larsen during the cultural and aesthetic movement called the Harlem Renaissance, a movement whose heyday in the 20´s in the last century brought about the uplifting of racial consciousness and the emergence of modern Afro-American literature. In the decade, the theme of ‘passing’ constituted one of the privileged topics in several novels by Afro-American writers. My analysis draws support from different sources: mother/daughter relationships from Marianne Hirsch and Nancy J. Chodorow; the question of race and ensuing conflicts of ‘passing’ from Thadious M. Davis, Elaine K. Ginsberg and Martha J. Cutter; and plot and desire from Peter Brooks. In the interweaving of biographical, psychological, cultural and literary elements, my reading shows how the novel dramatizes the insoluble conflict of the racial divide – white and black - which underlies the characters´ struggles and difficulties when facing the void in belongingness that attends the experience of passing.
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Hyon, Katherine Sungwon. "In the Body." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/34.
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This dissertation is comprised of a collection of nine short stories concerning two young women raised in the same Korean American church environment. In their adolescence, both women are exposed to the influence of a religious cult; one joins, the other does not. This dissertation explores the crises that occur in the wake of a collision between culture and religion as each character seeks to find redemption and renewed faith in God, in family, and in herself.
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Brum, Gabriela Eltz. "Sexual blinging of women : Alice Walker's african character tashi and issue of female genital cutting." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/4506.
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Este trabalho consiste em uma leitura das diferentes formas de representação que podem ser atribuídas à personagem Tashi, protagonista do romance Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), da escritora negra estadunidense Alice Walker. Antes desta obra, Tashi já havia aparecido em dois romances de Walker, primeiro em The Color Purple (1982), como personagem periférica, e depois como menção em The Temple of my Familiar (1989). Com Tashi, surge a temática da prática da circuncisão feminina, ritual ao qual a personagem se submete no início da idade adulta. O foco de observação do trabalho se volta para a maneira na qual a revolta da autora é transformada em um meio de representação criativa. Walker utiliza sua obra abertamente como instrumento ideológico para que o tema da “mutilação genital” (termo utilizado pela autora) receba ampla atenção da mídia e da crítica em geral. O propósito da investigação é avaliar até que ponto o engajamento social da autora contribui de uma forma positiva em seu trabalho e até que ponto o mesmo engajamento o atrapalha. Para a análise das diferentes questões relacionadas ao tema de “female genital cutting” (FGC), termo que eu utilizo no decorrer da pesquisa, os trabalhos de críticas e escritoras feministas como Ellen Gruenbaum, Lightfoot-Klein, Nancy Hartsock, Linda Nicholson, Efrat Tseëlon e a egípcia Nawal El Saadawi serão consultados. Espero que esta dissertação possa contribuir como uma observação sobre como Alice Walker usa seu engajamento social na criação de seu mundo fictício.This thesis provides a reading of the different forms of representation that can be attributed to the character Tashi, the protagonist of the novel Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), written by the African American writer Alice Walker. Before this work Tashi had already appeared in two previous novels by Walker, first, in The Color Purple (1982) and then, as a mention, in The Temple of My Familiar (1989). With Tashi, the author introduces the issue of female circumcision, a ritual Tashi submits herself to at the beginning of her adult life. The focus of observation lies in the ways in which the author’s anger is transformed into a means of creative representation. Walker uses her novel Possessing the Secret of Joy openly as a political instrument so that the expression “female mutilation” (term used by the author) receives ample attention from the media and critics in general. The aim of this investigation is to evaluate to what extent Walker’s social engagement contributes to the development of her work and to what extent it undermines it. For the analysis of the different issues related to “female genital cutting”, the term I use in this thesis, the works of feminist critics and writers such as Ellen Gruenbaum, Lightfoot-Klein, Nancy Hartsock, Linda Nicholson, Efrat Tseëlon and the Egyptian writer and doctor Nawal El Saadawi will be consulted. I hope that this thesis can contribute as an observation about Alice Walker’s use of her social engagement in the creation of her fictional world.
Este trabajo consiste en una lectura de las diferentes formas de representación que pueden ser atribuidas al personaje Tashi, protagonista de la novela Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), de la escritora negra norte-americana Alice Walker. Antes de esta obra, Tashi ya había aparecido en dos romances de Walker, primero en The Color Purple (1982), como personaje periferica y después como mención en The Temple of My Familiar (1989). Con Tashi, surge la temática de la circuncisión femenina, ritual al cual Tashi se somete en el principio de la edad adulta. El foco de observación del trabajo se vuelca sobre las maneras en las cuales la revuelta de la autora se tranforma en un medio de creación creativa. Walker utiliza su obra abiertamente como instrumento político para que el tema de la “mutilación genital” (termino utilizado por la autora) reciba amplia atención de los medios y crítica en general. El propósito de la investigación es evaluar hasta que punto el envolvimiento social de la autora contribuye positivamente o interfiere en el desarrollo de su trabajo. Para el análisis de las diferentes cuestiones relacionadas al tema de “female genital cutting” (FGC), termino utilizado por mi en el decorrer del trabajo, las obras de las críticas y escritoras feministas como Ellen Gruenbaum, Lightfoot-Klein, Nancy Hartsock, Linda Nicholson, Efrat Tseëlon y la egipcia Nawal El Saadawi serán consultadas. Deseo que el trabajo realizado pueda contribuir como una observación sobre como Alice Walker utiliza su envolvimiento social en la creación de su mundo fictício.
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Burgess, Rachel. "Dementure." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1289927073.
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Jackson, Indya J. "There Will Be No Pictures of Pigs Shooting Down Brothers in the Instant Replay: Surveillance and Death in the Black Arts Movement." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1588601272757038.
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Lawrence, Ariel D. "Black Lives Examined: Black Nonfiction and the Praxis of Survival in the Post-Civil Rights Era." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5450.
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The subject of my thesis project is black nonfiction, namely the essay, memoir, and autobiography, written by black authors about and during the Post-Civil Rights Era. The central goals of this work are to briefly investigate the role of genre analysis within the various subsets of nonfiction and also to exemplify the ways that black writers have taken key genre models and evolved them. Secondly, I aim to understand the historical, political, and cultural contributions of the Post-Civil Rights Era, which I mark as hitting its stride in 1968. It is not my desire to create a definitive historical framework for the Post-Civil Rights Era, but instead to understand it as a period of transition, revolt, and transformation which asked many important questions that have remained unanswered. I apply multiple theoretical frameworks to my research — like queer theory, Afro-pessimism, fugitivity, and more — to offer insights into the nonfiction works of writers such as James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Larry Neale, and Toni Cade Bambara. It is my hope to continue the work of such scholars as Hortense Spillers, Angela Ards, and Margo V. Perkins, by illustrating not only how these authors offered literary and aesthetic innovations, but also, through the archiving of their life experiences in print, create theories and practices for survival, forged in the past, which impact our current moment, and inspire us as scholars and activists to do the same.
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Santos, Waltecy Alves dos. "A voz feminina na literatura de ascendência africana: hibridismo de mitos e ritos nos romances Niketche de Paulina Chiziane e A cor púrpura de Alice Walker." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14887.
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Previous issue date: 2009-03-20This paper associates Literary Studies to Cultural Studies with the intention of comparing literatures that show itself as historically constituted subjects. In this sense, The female voice in literature of African ascendency: hybridism of myths and rites in the novels Niketche of Paulina Chiziane and The Color Purple of Alice Walker is a study that suggest literary-cultural reflections on the constructions of identities in these works. The research focuses on the construction of the subject through his speech and establishing the relationship with remarkable images in search of otherness namely, the mirror, unfolded in the letter, and the bed in addition to pointing out the problem of myths and rites as matrices to a new voice defined by cultural hybridism and fixed in orality. Finally, this research tries to describe the similarities and differences with respect to oppression and exclusion of marginal voices in case of the female voice of African ascendency examining them in what they have of challenging and transgressive in front of eurocentrical, patriarchal and theological assumptions, as they are presented in these works
A presente dissertação associa os Estudos Literários aos Estudos Culturais com o objetivo de aproximar literaturas que apresentam sujeitos historicamente constituídos. Sendo assim, A voz feminina na literatura de ascendência africana: Hibridismo de mitos e ritos nos romances Niketche de Paulina Chiziane e A cor púrpura de Alice Walker é um estudo que aponta reflexões literário-culturais a respeito da construção das identidades presentes nestas obras. A pesquisa centra-se na construção do sujeito por meio do seu discurso e na relação que estabelecem com imagens marcantes na busca da alteridade a saber o espelho, desdobrado na carta, e a cama além de apontar a problemática dos mitos e ritos como matrizes para uma nova voz marcada pelo hibridismo cultural e alicerçada na oralidade. Enfim, a pesquisa ambiciona esboçar as semelhanças e diferenças no que tange a opressão e exclusão de vozes marginais no caso a voz feminina e de ascendência africana analisando-as naquilo em que elas têm de desafiador e transgressor perante os pressupostos eurocêntricos, patriarcais e teológicos, apresentados nestas obras
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Kefi, Meriem. "Les Femmes dans la Résistance : Une étude de trois écrivaines de l'Harlem Renaissance : Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset et Zora Neale Hurston." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASV002.
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L’art et la littérature ont toujours été partie prenante de la lutte pour les droits civiques et l’égalité sociale aux États-Unis. Dans un contexte de discrimination raciale et sexiste, les artistes afro-américains ont combiné créativité et activisme et ont combattu pour la reconnaissance de leur humanité ainsi que de leur talent artistique. La Harlem Renaissance, cette période d’extraordinaire renouveau de la culture noire américaine dans les années vingt, s'employa à subvertir les stéréotypes attachés aux Afro-Américains et à engager la construction d’une nouvelle identité raciale. La Harlem Renaissance a en effet donné une voix aux Afro-Américains, et plus particulièrement aux femmes afro-américaines, leur permettant de produire un nombre sans précédent d’œuvres artistiques.La présente thèse a trait à trois femmes écrivaines afro-américaines de la Harlem Renaissance : Nella Larsen (1891-1964), Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) et Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) qui défièrent la hiérarchie raciale et sexiste dévalorisant l’identité et le talent des Afro-Américains, et tout particulièrement des femmes afro-américaines. Si l’objectif de ses trois écrivaines était le même, elles optèrent pourtant pour des stratégies différentes. La présente thèse s’emploie à explorer ces stratégies, telles qu’elles s’expriment sur le plan générique, narratif ou stylistique, tout en dégageant les spécificitésArt and literature have often been used as means of resistance in the fight for Civil Rights as well as social equality in the United States. In a context of racial and gender discrimination, African-American artists have combined creativity with activism as they have fought for their talent and humanity to be recognized. In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance came as a turning point in black cultural history. Also called “The New Negro Movement,” this rebirth of Black-American culture aimed to subvert the derogatory image ascribed to African-Americans and to construct a new racial identity. The Harlem Renaissance indeed gave space and a voice to African-Americans, especially to African-American women, allowing them to resist a white male-dominated world through the production of an unprecedented number of artistic works.This thesis focuses on three African-American women writers of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen (1891-1964), Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) and Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) who, though well-known in the United States, have met with limited recognition in France. Although they shared the same purpose, their strategies are different. While in their best works Larsen and Fauset opted for narratives of passing, Hurston chose to situate her stories in a black world, ignoring the very existence of Whites. This thesis aims at exploring the generic, narrative and stylistic characteristics of their production while delineating their specificity
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Revelles, Benavente Beatriz. "Literature, Gender and Communication in the making: Understanding Toni Morrison's Work in the Information Society." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/306597.
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La present tesi doctoral examina una comunicació relacional com a objecte d'estudi per a la literatura. Aquesta comunicació es produeix entre autors i autores i lectors i lectores a través de les xarxes socials. Per a tals fins, utilitza una escriptora en particular, Toni Morrisson i una modalitat de xarxa social concreta, la seva pàgina oficial de Facebook. Utilitzant com a marc teòric el nou materialisme (Van der Tuin & Dolphijn, 2010) i una metodologia "difractiva" (Barad, 2007), aquesta tesi desenvolupa un concepte de comunicació literària basada en mecanismes que infereixen diferències substancials fonamentalment en dos aspectes: gènere i política.La presente tesis doctoral examina una comunicación relacional como objeto de estudio para la literatura. Dicha comunicación se produce entre autores y autoras y lectores y lectoras a través de las redes sociales. Para tales fines, utiliza una escritora en particular, Toni Morrisson y una modalidad de red social concreta, su página oficial de Facebook. Utilizando como marco teórico el nuevo materialismo (Van der Tuin & Dolphijn, 2010) y una metodología "difractiva" (Barad, 2007), esta tesis desarrolla un concepto de comunicación literaria basada en mecanismos que infieren diferencias sustanciales fundamentalmente en dos aspectos: géenero y política. El marco teórico nuevo materialista lleva como principal premisa la ruptura de opuestos dicotómicos, tales como el binomio sexual entre hombres y mujeres. Por otra parte, la metodología difractiva se opone al "efecto espejo" en el cual las partes de la investigación (investigador o invcestigadora, metodología, instrumentos de medición y objecto de estudo, entre otros) son claramentes diferenciadas con el objeto de representar una realidad. Este punto de partida supone un cambio referencial por el cual buscamos procesos y no resultados. Así pues, en esta tesis encontramos que el objecto literario es la comunicación en sí (y no la obra o el autor o autora), y que en esta comunicación se produce una materialización de política basada en afinidades y no identidades y un concepto de género relacional situado (Haraway, 1991) racialmente. Estos conceptos teóricos se articulan empíricamente gracias al análisis de los afectos (Colman, 2008), o sentimientos, que se encarnan en las relaciones.
The present doctoral dissertation examines a relational communicacion as an object for Literary Studies. This communicacion between authors and readers is stablished through Social Networking Sites. For those means, it uses a concrete autor, Toni Morrisson and a particular Social Network, like her official Facebook page. Using New materialism (Van der Tuin & Dolphijn, 2010) as a theoretical framework and a "diffractive metodology" (Barad, 2007), this thesis develops a concept of literary communication based on mechanisms that produce differences on two main aspects: gender and politics. The new materialist framework postulates mainly breaking through opposite poles such as the sexual binary between men and women. On the other hand, the diffractive methodology is oppodef to the "mirroring effect" in wich the different elements of a research (such as researcher, methodology, apparatuses and object of study, among others) are separated from each other to represent reality. This requires a referential shift to look for processes instead of results. Therefore, in this thesis we find that the object of Literary Studies is the communication itself (not the novel or the author), and this communication materializes politics based uppon affinities and not identities and a concept of gender as relationally "situated" (Haraway, 1991) in a racial context. Theses theoretical concepts are empirically articulated thanks to the analysis of affects (Colman, 2008), or feelings, embedded in those relationships.
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Stamper, Amber M. "Witnessing the Web: The Rhetoric of American E-Vangelism and Persuasion Online." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/3.
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From the distribution of religious tracts at Ellis Island and Billy Sunday’s radio messages to televised recordings of the Billy Graham Crusade and Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, American evangelicals have long made a practice of utilizing mass media to spread the Gospel. Most recently, these Christian evangelists have gone online. As a contribution to scholarship in religious rhetoric and media studies, this dissertation offers evangelistic websites as a case study into the ways persuasion is carried out on the Internet. Through an analysis of digital texts—including several evangelical home pages, a chat room, discussion forums, and a virtual church—I investigate how conversion is encouraged via web design and virtual community as well as how the Internet medium impacts the theology and rhetorical strategies of web evangelists. I argue for “persuasive architecture” and “persuasive communities”—web design on the fundamental level of interface layout and tightly-controlled restrictions on discourse and community membership—as key components of this strategy. In addition, I argue that evangelical ideology has been influenced by the web medium and that a “digital reformation” is taking place in the church, one centered on a move away from the Prosperity Gospel of televangelism to a Gospel focused on God as divine problem-solver and salvation as an uncomplicated, individualized, and instantaneously-rewarding experience, mimicking Web 2.0 users’ desire for quick, timely, and effective answers to all queries. This study simultaneously illuminates the structural and fundamental levels of design through which the web persuades as well as how—as rhetoricians from Plato’s King Thamus to Marshall McLuhan have recognized—media inevitably shapes the message and culture of its users.
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Amemate, Amelia AmeDela. "Black Bodies, White Masks?: Straight Hair Culture and Natural Hair Politics Among Ghanaian Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu157797167417396.
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Owen, Ceri. "Vaughan Williams, song, and the idea of 'Englishness'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:117f2c64-3b63-43aa-9dd3-15a7ce2f9339.
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It is now broadly accepted that Vaughan Williams's music betrays a more complex relation to national influences than has traditionally been assumed. It is argued in this thesis that despite the trends towards revisionism that have characterized recent work, Vaughan Williams's interest in and engagement with English folk materials and cultures remains only partially understood. Offering contextual interpretation of materials newly available in the field, my work takes as its point of departure the critical neglect surrounding Vaughan Williams's contradictory compositional debut, in which he denounced the value of folk song in English art music in an article published alongside his song 'Linden Lea', subtitled 'A Dorset Folk Song'. Reconstructing the under-documented years of the composer's early career, it is demonstrated that Vaughan Williams's subsequent 'conversion' and lifelong attachment to folk song emerged as part of a broader concern with the intelligible and participatory quality of song and its performance by the human voice. As such, it is argued that the ways in which this composer theorized an idea of 'song' illuminate a powerful perspective from which to re-consider the propositions of his project for a national music. Locating Vaughan Williams's writings within contemporaneous cultural ideas and practices surrounding 'song', 'voice', and 'Englishness', this work brings such contexts into dialogue with readings of various of the composer's works, composed both before and after the First World War. It is demonstrated in this way that the rehabilitation of Vaughan Williams's music and reputation profitably proceeds by reconstructing a complex dialogue between his writings; between various cultural ideas and practices of English music; between the reception of his works by contemporaneous critics; and crucially, by considering the propositions of his music as explored through analysis. Ultimately, this thesis contends that Vaughan Williams's music often betrays a complex and self-conscious performance of cultural ideas of national identity, negotiating an optimistic or otherwise ambivalent relationship to an English musical tradition that is constructed and referenced through a particular idea of song.
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Huh, Jang Wook. "Imagining a Black Pacific: Dispossession in Afro-Korean Literary Encounters." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KD1WJR.
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"Imagining a Black Pacific" traces a literary history of political and cultural interaction between African Americans and Koreans from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. It argues that black and Korean authors explored literary modes of antiracial solidarity against the Japanese and U.S. empires. Building on diverse archives of U.S. missionary and Korean Christian texts, State Department records, and military documents, as well as literary works, periodicals, and jazz songs, this dissertation examines the mediums and modalities of Afro-Asian aesthetic connection that invoked human freedom and liberation in transnational and multilingual contexts. Black intellectuals and Korean writers drew a parallel between the racialized U.S. and colonized Korea to contest the racial formations of the Japanese empire in an Asian cultural space until the end of the Pacific War. This cross-racial comparison challenged the imperialistic imposition of U.S. politics upon the Pacific Rim during the Cold War era.
"Imagining a Black Pacific" is an interdisciplinary project that explores three facets of "Afro-Korean" connectedness: the trans-Pacific literary trajectories of W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, Eslanda and Paul Robeson, and J. B. Lenoir; the enduring elaborations of black radicalism by Korean writers such as Yun Chi-ho, Han Heuk-gu, and Bae In-cheol in Korea; and U.S. missionaries' intervention in cultural exchanges between African Americans and Koreans. Examining these three distinctive transcultural encounters, my work brings into focus the complicated configurations of an Afro-Asian alliance. It highlights the self-reflexive disorientation of so-called Afro-Orientalism and explores the experimental commensurabilities between U.S. racism and East Asian colonialism, facilitated by Afro-Korean critical inquiries into two forms of imperialism in Korea, namely, Japan's colonization of Korea and U.S. military intervention in Korea.
While scholars have focused critical attention on the political alliance between African Americans and Asians, Korea has gone long unexplored in Afro-Asian conjunctures. By extending the scope of Afro-Asian convergences, this dissertation not only fills in Korea's absence in previous studies but also reconstructs lost legacies of black internationalism in the Pacific. In particular, it reconsiders Afro-Orientalism by exploring Koreans' deployment of African American cultural sources to engender anticolonial discourses. At the same time, it uncovers black intellectuals' investigations of racism in Asian and U.S.-Asian contexts. Afro-Korean connections, or the interplay between African Americans' antiracial sensibility and Koreans' anticolonial consciousness, made sensible the hidden forms of racism in the Japanese and U.S. empires beyond the black-white racial binary. By bridging the long-standing gulf between black and Korean cultures, this study opens up new scholarly terrain in the fields of African American literature and culture, comparative race studies, and Asian/Pacific studies.
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Swanson, Rosario Montelongo de. "Beyond the Caribbean, the Afro Hispanic difference in continental Spanish American literature: Memory, transatlantic journey, slavery, and rebellion in three contemporary Afro Hispanic novels." 2008. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3315488.
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The main purpose of this dissertation is to understand the emergence of Afro Hispanic American Literature and the causes that delayed its emergence at the end of the twentieth century. I study this process through three novels written in the last decades of the twentieth century as works representative of three national literatures that develop concurrently. These novels are Changó, el gran putas (1983) by Afro-Colombian writer Manuel Zapata Olivella, Jonatás y Manuela (1994) by Afro-Ecuadorian writer Luz Argentina Chiriboga and Malambo (2001) by Afro Peruvian writer Lucía Charún Illescas. The study of these three novels from within their own literary contexts allows for the tracing of national and international developments that made possible the emergence of these minority voices. On the other hand, by placing these texts in a broader historical context allows us to chart a cartography of African roots that although begins in the Caribbean; its horizon expands beyond the Caribbean proper and into the continent. Thus, each novel represents a moment in the African saga in the Americas, a new vision of its history and complex social landscape; and finally a new proposal for the future. Zapata Olivella proposes mestizaje as the ontological base in which Latin American reality was founded and points towards the existence of an African consciousness that is transcontinental. Luz Argentina Chiriboga presents us with the intimate side of history through the tale of two women: Manuela Sáenz and Jonatás, her slave, that represent two sides of the story. Lucía Charún Illescas reconstructs life in Malambo an old slave barracks in colonial Lima and through it unveils hidden worlds in our history. Each novel reconstucts hidden recesses of our history and thus force us to engage in a meaningful dialogue with it and with ourselves.
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"Representation and subjectivity in 16th and 17th century Afro-Hispanic Caribbean texts." Tulane University, 1997.
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This dissertation analyzes the African presence in chronicles and documents of the early Spanish American colonial period, critically examining such textual presence as both European construct and African discursive resistance to colonialism. In order to access an African voice in the colonial period, traditional notions of 'text,' and 'writing' are theoretically expanded to explain the multidiscursivity that exists both on the African body and the pages of the texts considered. The African voice and articulation of difference are revealed as part of a process of reinscription of body and territory that simultaneously translates as a claim to textual- and historical-space The first chapter treats European contact with Africans before and after the encounter with the New World and explores the construction of the African Other within Renaissance texts such as Cervantes' Don Quijote, and Novelas ejemplares; Lazarillo de Tormes, dramas by Tirso de Molina and Lope de Vega, El Abencerraje and writings by Juan Latino. Chapter two is devoted to the analysis of the texts of rebellion and escape by African slaves within various chronicles of the 16th century. Included herein are Bartolome de las Casas (Historia de las Indias) and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (Historia general y natural de las Indias), and from the region of the Nuevo Reino de Granada, Lucas Fernandez de Piedrahita (Noticia historial de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada); Fray Pedro Simon (Noticias Historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme in las Indias Occidentales). Chapter three is an analysis of constructions of blackness and Africanness in the only known chronicle devoted exclusively to Africans in the early colonial period, that of the Jesuit missionary Alonso de Sandoval: De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627, 1647). Finally, chapter four treats documents from the 16th century in which Africans negotiate for freedom and rights by gaining access to writing as a source of power This dissertation intends to serve as a contribution to the neglected theme of African discursive and textual presence in the Spanish American colonial period and to also define directions for further research, specifically with document sourcesacase@tulane.edu
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"Answer the call to wholeness: A jazz aesthetic for contemporary African-American and Afro-Caribbean fiction." Tulane University, 1997.
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The jazz aesthetic presented in this study constitutes an open, dialogic critical approach to African-American and Afro-Caribbean literature, particularly by contemporary women writers. It attempts to bring to light and play with differences, contradictions, and irresolvabilities within and between texts. It demonstrates how that fiction constitutes an Afrocentric discourse/performance whose aim is to write/right the history of African-American and Afro-Caribbean communities and how it plays a healing function for the protagonists, the author and the participatory audience, stressing the importance of knowing one's past and learning from one's matrilineage. Using jazz's theme-and-variations mode of composition, together with call-and-response patterns, such novels achieve wholeness behind a mask of fragmentation and vibrate with the tension between oraliture and literature. To show how varied the application of the jazz aesthetic can be, I examine Toni Morrison's Jazz, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heavenacase@tulane.edu
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Robbins, Dylon Lamar. "Elegua's Surrealist shroud: Surrealism and Afro-Cubanism in the Negrista works of Alejo Carpentier and Wifredo Lam." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/17618.
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The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (1904--1980) and painter Wifredo Lam (1902--1982) draw upon Surrealism in their representations of an Afro-Cuban religiosity in their early Negrista works. Through a comparison of Carpentier's ¡Ecue-Yamba-O! (1933) and "Historia de lunas" (1933) with a selection of Lam's works of the 1940's---"The Jungle" (1942), "The Eternal Presence" (1945), "The Wedding" (1947), and "The Visitor" (1950)---this analysis uncovers how both writer and artist use collage and a surrealist mood in representing certain aspects of Afro-Cuban religiosity, specifically Abacua ceremonial incantations, Itutu, and trance or possession. This thesis also attempts to unmask the limitations of these techniques as a representational paradigm in limning the Afro-Cuban.
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Brzobohatá, Michaela. "Komunita v knihách Toni Morrison." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-310529.
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English Abstract Toni Morrison deals with the topic of community to a greater or lesser extent in all of her books. Being influenced by her own upbringing, she has always been aware of the role community plays in one's life and its influence on an individual. Community can both save you and forsake you. The nature of black community has been changing, according to Morrison, and so has her view of it. Her writing career reflects these alternations, revealing a significant change in her perspective. Looking at her first novel, The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, her third novel written seven years later, Song of Solomon, and her seventh novel, Paradise, written in 1998, this thesis traces the way her position alters throughout the years. Being opposed to both radical separatism and blind assimilation, Morrison first proposed return to traditional African values as the possible cure for the black community destroyed by the forces of capitalist society. Later in her career, however, Morrison changes her ideology and suggests as a remedy a community that does not exclude the unworthy, but is open, caring, and inclusive. By evolving from individualism to individuality, communities that will include everyone can be created.
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Flad, Simone 1971. "Bulgarische Evangelische Gesellschaft, 1875-1958 : die Geschichte der ersten organisierten evangelistischen Eigeninitiative bulgarischer evangelischer Christen." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13102.
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German textDie Bulgarische Evangelische Gesellschaft (BEG) ist die erste organisierte Eigeninitiative bulgarischer evangelischer Christen, die dem Ziel verpflichtet war, zur Evangelisation der Bulgaren beizutragen. Neben der Literaturarbeit und der finanziellen Unterstützung von Predigern und Pastoren gehörte die Förderung von Einheit unter den evangelischen Christen zu den wichtigsten Arbeitsbereichen der BEG. Letzteres wurde vor allem auch in den Jahresversammlungen verwirklicht, die allgemein eine wichtige Plattform für die verschiedenen Arbeitszweige darstellten. 1875 in einer äußerst unsicheren Zeit gegründet, überstand die BEG mehrere Kriege wie auch interne Probleme, bis sie (wie andere Vereine) 1958 vom kommunistischen Regime aufgelöst wurde. Ihre Geschichte spiegelt in weiten Teilen die Entwicklung der bulgarischen evangelischen Bewegung wider – deren Beschaffenheit und Besonderheiten, deren Erfolge sowie interne und externe Herausforderungen. Als interdenominationelle Organisation und mit der breiten Unterstützung durch einen Großteil der evangelischen Leiter wie auch durch viele Gemeindemitglieder nahm die BEG in der sich entwickelnden protestantischen Landschaft Bulgariens eine prägende Rolle ein. Bis dato ist die frühe protestantische Geschichte Bulgariens hauptsächlich aus dem Blickwinkel der Missionsarbeit der amerikanischen Missionen behandelt worden. Anhand der neu aufgefundenen Jahresberichte der BEG und anderer Primärquellen kann nun das Augenmerk auf diese heute fast vergessene Eigeninitiative der noch jungen evangelischen Bewegung Bulgariens gerichtet werden. Diese Studie leistet einen Beitrag zur evangelischen Kirchen- und Missionsgeschichtsschreibung in Bulgarien.
The Bulgarian Evangelical Society (BES) was the first organized initiative by Bulgarian evangelical Christians to evangelize Bulgarian people. In addition to publishing Christian literature and providing financial help for preachers and pastors, one of its major activities was to work towards unity among evangelical Christians. This was mostly realized at the annual meetings of the membership of the BES, which provided an important platform for the society's different ministries. Founded in 1875 in a very insecure time for the Bulgarian people, the BES managed to survive several wars and various internal problems until it was dissolved in 1958 by the Communist Regime, along with other non-governmental organizations. The history of the BES to a large extent reflects the development of the Bulgarian evangelical movement as a whole in its qualities and characteristics, its successes and in its internal and external challenges. As an interdenominational organisation and because it had the broad support of a large part of the evangelical leaders as well as many church members, the BES played an important role in the development of Protestantism in Bulgaria. In the past, the early Protestant history of Bulgaria frequently has been portrayed as the missionary work of American missionaries. With the newly rediscovered annual reports of the BES and other primary sources it has now become possible to uncover the significant role of this almost forgotten initiative of the early Bulgarian evangelical movement. In doing so, this study contributes both to history of missions and to the history of the Protestant Church in Bulgaria.
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Smith, Faith. "The image of the Caribbean in Afro-American literature a study of Praisesong for the Widow and Tar Baby /." 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19104663.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1988.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-87).
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Costa, Branca Maria Lopes de Albuquerque. "Richard Wright e William “Big Bill" Broonzy : diálogos narrativas da grande migração negra americana (1930-1960)." Master's thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/537.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Americanos apresentada à Universidade AbertaResumo - A Grande Migração Negra Americana do século XX foi a maior movimentação humana interna ocorrida nos Estados Unidos. Durante décadas milhões de afro-americanos dirigiram-se para Norte em busca de melhores condições de vida, fugindo de um Sul racista e opressor que os intimidava e discriminava. A Chicago chegou a maioria desses migrantes, incluindo muitos músicos de jazz e blues, que consigo levaram uma cultura musical muito própria e um estilo de música genuinamente afro-americano. A experiência humana dessa migração atravessa a literatura, a arte e a música afro-americanas. Richard Wright na literatura e Big Bill Broonzy na música são disso exemplo. Nascidos no Mississippi, ambos participaram nessa migração em massa, um como o outro se estabeleceram na ilusória “Terra Prometida" de Chicago e um como o outro dali partiram para o Mundo. Broonzy, considerado um dos “pais" do Chicago blues, fez a ponte entre os blues rurais do Sul e os blues urbanos do Norte, abriu caminho a novas gerações de músicos e divulgou o estilo perante audiências dos Estados Unidos e da Europa. Wright foi o primeiro escritor negro americano a conseguir notável fama literária na América e na Europa e a exercer grande impacto tanto junto dos leitores negros como dos brancos com o romance Native Son e a autobiografia Black Boy. Esta dissertação aborda os percursos de vida, tão paralelos entre si, destes dois vultos da cultura americana do século XX através das suas obras onde a Grande Migração Negra está mais presente, relacionando assim a literatura com a expressão cultural afro-americana contida nos blues
Résumé - La Grande Migration Noire Américaine du XXème siécle a été la plus grande movimentation humaine qui a eut lieu aux États-Unis. Pendant des décennies des millions d’afro-américains se sont dirigés vers le Nord cherchant de meilleurs conditions de vie, s’enfuiant d’un Sud raciste et opprimant qui les intimidait et discriminait. La plupart de ces migrants, dont beaucoup de musiciens de jazz et de blues, sont arrivés à Chicago et ont transporté avec eux une culture musicale très charactéristique et un style de musique authentiquement afro-américain. L’éxpérience humaine de cette migration traverse la littérature, l’art et la musique afro-américaines. Richard Wright dans la littérature et Big Bill Broonzy dans la musique d’en sont examples. Nés aux Mississippi, les deux ont participé à cette migration massive, l’un comme l’autre se sont établis à l’illusoire “Terre Promise" de Chicago et l’un comme l’autre d’y sont partis vers le Monde. Broonzy, considéré un des “pères" du Chicago blues, a fait le pont entre les blues ruraux du Sud et les blues urbains du Nord, a ouvert le chemin à des nouvelles générations de musiciens et a divulgué le style devant les audiences des États-Unis e d’Europe. Wright a été le premier écrivain noir américain à atteindre une notable réputation littéraire en Amérique et en Europe et à exercer un grand impact, soit auprès des lecteurs noirs soit auprès des lecteurs blancs, avec le roman Native Son et l’autobiographie Black Boy. Cette dissertation verse les parcours de vie, si parallèles entre eux, de ces deux importantes figures de la culture américaine du XXème siècle à travers de ses ouvrages où la Grande Migration Noire est plus présente, en reliant la littérature avec l’éxpression culturelle afro-américaine contenue dans les blues
Abstract - The Great Black Migration of the Twentieth Century was the largest human movement the United States have ever seen. Occurring mainly during the first quarter of the century, several million African-Americans headed North looking for better living conditions denied to them in the racist and intimidating “Jim Crow" South. Chicago was the main end of travel. Many rural musicians arrived here, bringing a genuine African-American music style with them: the blues. The human experience born of that migration crosses the African-American literature, art and music, so well exemplified by Richard Wright in literature and Big Bill Broonzy in music. Born in Mississippi, both have been migrants who demanded the illusion of a “Promised Land" in Chicago, both have left the “Windy City" for wider audiences. Broonzy is one of the “fathers" of Chicago Blues. Acting like a bridge between South rural and North urban blues, he helped open the way to new generations of musicians and was a true “Blues Ambassador" in the United States and Europe. Wright was the first African-American author to reach a recognized literary fame and status in America and Europe. His novel Native Son and his autobiography Black Boy have caused great impact both in negro and in white readers all over the world. This dissertation approaches the lives of Richard Wright and Big Bill Broonzy in the light of their works where the Great Black Migration is present, thus linking its main musical expression – the blues – with literature
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Cholant, Gonçalo Piolti. "Since Why is Difficult: The Representation of Violence and Trauma in African-American and Afro-Caribbean Literature by Women: Autobiography, Fiction, and Subjectivity in the Bildungsroman." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87533.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Línguas Modernas: Culturas, Literaturas, Tradução, no ramo de Culturas e Literaturas, apresentada ao Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de CoimbraThe present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial condition the women protagonists experience, in which racism, sexism, classism, among other kinds of discrimination, are co-created in an intersectional experience of oppression. The titles analyzed in this work are: Lucy (1990), written by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), written by Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), written by bell hooks; and God Help the Child (2015), written by Toni Morrison. The Bildungsroman genre serves as the form with which the authors are able to display the different forms of violence experienced during the the process of growing up female and black in the United States, and also in the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Haiti, in the cases of Kincaid and Danticat respectively. The coming-of-age stories written by women, and more specifically by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women, tend to showcase narratives in which the tensions between the protagonists’ self-determination and the influence of social and cultural factors in their development opportunities are negotiated. The genre is adapted and subverted by the authors, deviating from its canonical European origins, becoming a site in which the authors are able to represent different kinds of violence, and the subsequent traumatic consequences caused by it. Through the perspective of the Sociology of Absences (Santos), the analisys focuses on bringing to the fore types of violence that have previously been made invisible by colonialism, as creative work may more clearly see beyond the abysmal line, serving as a form of analysing realities that are often not perceived in their entirety. Literature turns out to be a space of resistance, in which the representation of violence and trauma, to some extent, becomes possible, serving as a tool for the denounciation of violence and trauma, in addition to becoming a tool for the overcoming of trauma.
O presente trabalho lida com a representação do trauma e da violência em narrativas de formação escritas por autoras Afro-Americanas e Afro-Caribenhas nos Estados Unidos. Os tipos de violência explorados pelas neste trabalho estão relacionados com a condição pós-colonial vividas pelas protagonistas, na qual racismo, sexismo, classismo, dentre outras formas de discriminação são co-formadas em uma experiência interserccional de opressão. Os títulos analizados neste trabalho são: Lucy (1990), escrito por Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), escrito por Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), escrito por bell hooks; e God Help the Child (2015), escrito por Toni Morrison. O gênero literário Bildungsroman serve como a forma com a qual as autoras são capazes de demonstrar as differentes formas de violência vividas pelas protagonistas durante o processo de crescimento como mulheres e negras nos Estados Unidos, e também nas ilhas Caribenhas de Antígua e Haiti, nos casos de Kincaid e de Danticat respectivamente. As narrativas de fomação escritas por mulheres, e mais especificamente por mulheres afro-americanas e afro-caribenhas, tendem a demonstrar percursos em que as tensões entre a autodeterminação das protagonistas e as influências sociais e culturais que incidem sobre as suas oportunidades de desenvolvimento são negociadas. O gênero literário em questão é adaptado e subvertido pelas autoras, desviando-se de sua forma canônica europeia, tornando-se um espaço em que as autoras são capazes de representar diferentes formas de violência e as subsequentes consequências traumáticas causadas pela mesma. Através da perspectiva da Sociologia das Ausências (Santos), a análise concentra-se em trazer para o primeiro plano tipos de violência que foram previamente construídos como invisívies pelo colonialismo, já que a escrita de cariz criativo é capaz de mais claramente ver além da linha abissal, servindo como uma forma de análise de realidades que frequentemente não são inteiramente percebidas. A literatura acaba por ser uma espaço de resistência, no qual a representação da violência e do trauma, até algum ponto, torna-se possível, servindo como ferramenta para a denúncia da violência e do trauma, além de tornar-se uma ferramenta no processo de superação do trauma.
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McDaniel, H. Curtis. "Presence and voice understanding the tensions over the American Church's relationship to its culture through the writings of Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine /." 2009. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,121795.
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Ball, Karlene N. "A comparative study of the poetry and politics of five poets that represent the afro voice in the literature across the Americas : Aimé Cesaire, Nicolás Guillén, Langston Hughes, Luis Palés Matos and Claude McKay /." 2006. http://www.consuls.org/record=b2801885.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2006.Thesis advisor: Antonio García-Lozada. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Spanish." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-104). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Marcoux, Jean-Philippe. "In The Circle : jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural Memory in Poetry." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3546.
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Ma thèse de doctorat, In the Circle: Jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural History in Poetry, étudie la façon dont les poètes afro-américains des années 1960 et 1970, Langston Hughes, David Henderson, Sonia Sanchez, et Amiri Baraka, emploient le jazz afin d’ancrer leur poésie dans la tradition de performance. Ce faisant, chacun de ces poètes démontre comment la culture noire, en conceptualisant à travers la performance des modes de résistance, fût utilisée par les peuples de descendance africaine pour contrer le racisme institutionnalisé et les discours discriminatoires. Donc, pour les fins de cette thèse, je me concentre sur quatre poètes engagés dans des dialogues poétiques avec la musicologie, l’esthétique, et la politique afro-américaines des années 1960 et 1970. Ces poètes affirment la centralité de la performativité littéraire noire afin d’assurer la survie et la continuité de la mémoire culturelle collective des afro-américains. De plus, mon argument est que la théorisation de l’art afro-américain comme engagement politique devient un élément central à l’élaboration d’une esthétique noire basée sur la performance. Ma thèse de doctorat propose donc une analyse originale des ces quatre poètes qui infusent leur poèmes avec des références au jazz et à la politique dans le but de rééduquer les générations des années 2000 en ce qui concerne leur mémoire collective.My doctoral dissertation, In the Circle: Jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural History in Poetry studies the ways in which African American poets of the 1960s and 1970s, Langston Hughes, David Henderson, Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka employ jazz in order to ground their poetry in the tradition of performance. In so doing, each poet illustrates how black expressive culture, by conceptualizing through performance modes of resistance, has historically been used by people of African descent to challenge institutionalized racism and discriminatory discourses. Therefore, for the purpose of this dissertation, I focus on four poets who engage in dialogues with and about black musicology, aesthetics, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s; they assert the centrality of literary rendition for the survival and continuance of the collective cultural memory of Black Americans. In turn, I suggest that their theorization of artistry as political engagement becomes a central element in the construction of a Black Aesthetic based on performance. In the Circle: Jazz Griots and the Mapping of African American Cultural History in Poetry thus proposes an original analysis of how the four poets infused jazz and political references in their poetics in order to re-educate later generations about a collective black memory.
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Giraldo, Pulido Daniel. "Subversión discursiva y sexual en La Virgen de los sicarios de Fernando Vallejo." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4271.
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Il existe en Colombie un réseau de discours qui cherche à contrôler la production discursive sur le sexe et à brider la sexualité des Colombiens. La Virgen de los sicarios de Fernando Vallejo (1994), répond de manière subversive à un tel conditionnement discursif et sexuel. La production discursive sur la sexualité en Colombie a été construite, principalement, à partir de la tradition catholique, des discours de l’État et de textes scientifiques. Par conséquent, les comportements sexuels que le discours institutionnel ne considère pas comme des comportements normaux sont soumis à un pouvoir qui leur confère une place abominable dans l’ordre sexuel en Colombie.
La Virgen de los sicarios émerge de la production littéraire queer colombienne et propose une histoire subversive sur le plan discursif autant que sexuel. Ce mémoire décrit d'abord la présence inévitable du discours religieux en Colombie et sa forte relation avec l'État pour démontrer l'existence d'une norme discursive. Ensuite, l’analyse du roman de Vallejo permet d’observer comment cette norme est bouleversée en utilisant ses propres linéaments pour l'affaiblir. Finalement, à partir de concepts développés par Michel Foucault et Judith Butler, ce travail met en évidence l'existence d'une norme sexuelle en Colombie qui part des discours et qui se déploie vers les corps – norme qui est contestée à travers un processus selon lequel l'auteur libère la sexualité des personnages du pouvoir qui domine leurs corps.In Colombia it can be found a network of discourse patterns that seeks to control the discursive production on sex and to restrain the sexuality of the Colombian people. La Virgen de los sicarios by Fernando Vallejo (1994) responds subversively to such discursive and sexual conditioning. The discursive production on sexuality in Colombia has been mainly created and influenced by the Catholic tradition, discourses originating with the State and scientific texts. As a result, sexual attitudes which are not consider as normal by institutional discourse are subjugated to a power that places them in an abominable place in what could be called the Colombian sexual order. La Virgen de los sicarios comes from Colombia’s queer literature, presenting a story that is both discursively and sexually subversive. This thesis first seeks to describe the inevitable presence of the religious speech in Colombia and its strong relation with the State in order to prove the existence of a discursive norm. Second, by analyzing Vallejo’s narrative in the novel, it shows how this norm is subverted by using its own ideological guidelines to weaken it. Finally, using various concepts developed by Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, it exposes the existence of a sexual norm in Colombia that is present in discourses and that extends to bodies. This Norm is disproved through a process in which the author releases the sexuality of the characters from the power that dominates their bodies.
Existe en Colombia una red de discursos que busca controlar la producción discursiva sobre el sexo y las realizaciones sexuales de los colombianos. La Virgen de los sicarios de Fernando Vallejo (1994), responde de manera subversiva a dicho condicionamiento discursivo y sexual. La producción discursiva sobre la sexualidad en Colombia se ha construido, principalmente, a partir de la tradición católica, de discursos estatales y de textos científicos. Como consecuencia de esto, los comportamientos sexuales que el discurso institucional no considera como normales son sometidos a un poder que los ubica en lugares ominosos dentro del orden sexual colombiano. La novela de Vallejo surge desde la producción literaria queer colombiana y esgrime una historia subversiva tanto de manera discursiva como de manera sexual. Esta memoria describe, en primer lugar, la presencia inevitable del discurso religioso en Colombia y su fuerte relación con el Estado para demostrar la existencia de una norma discursiva. En segundo lugar, al realizar un análisis de la novela de Vallejo, se observa cómo dicha norma es subvertida al usar sus propios lineamientos para desvirtuarla. Por último, a partir de conceptos desarrollados por Michel Foucault y Judith Butler, se pone de manifiesto la existencia de una norma sexual en Colombia que parte de los discursos y que se extiende hacia los cuerpos. Norma que es impugnada por medio de un proceso en el que el autor libera la sexualidad de los personajes del poder que recae sobre sus cuerpos.