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Author | : Kristof Hoppen |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2008-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3640182456 |
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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Philologie), 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This work deals with double consciousness in contemporary African American crime fiction. ...] In order to find out what characterizes African American crime fiction, or at least a part of it, and where it can be settled in this large field, two selected novels, Chester Himes' Cotton Comes To Harlem and Walter Mosley's Devil In A Blue Dress will be analyzed in the background of the concept of "double consciousness", a term which was coined by W.E.B. Du Bois in his work The Souls of Black Folk in the early 20th century. ...] Light will be shed on the generic features of the novels, such as the plot, the narrative structure, the imagery and the constellation of the characters. Afterwards a short outline of the development of the detective novel shall be sketched to provide the reader with a necessary knowledge which will help during the analysis of the works. ...] The thesis of this paper is that double consciousness is an omnipresent element in the selected works and that it shapes each character differently in a way that it might lead either to success or failure. Depending on how the specific character is able to recognize his/her own two consciousnesses, this awareness forms the character's development in the plot and what he/she achieves in the end.
Author | : Denise Heinze |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans in literature |
ISBN | : 9780820316857 |
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Morrison is a mythbasher, says Meinze, but she is also a mythmaker whose ontology finds its meaning in nature, primitivism, the past, and the supernatural. Central to understanding Morrison's challenge to traditional values, Heinze argues, is W. E. B. Du Bois's notion of "double-consciousness" - the condition in which a person is representative of and immersed in two distinct ways of life. Heinze also draws on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s notion of the symbiotic relationship that Morrison, as an African-American writer, shares with white writers. Morrison's position as part of the literary establishment and as part of minority culture in America grants her two perspectives, both of which inform her work. She successfully incorporates these perspectives, Heinze contends, by appropriating conventional literary forms to render artistically the story of black experience inside white culture
Author | : Pajor Gabriella |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Karsten Nölle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Joyce Russell Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : African Americans in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Julian Jaynes |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2000-08-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0547527543 |
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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Author | : Lauri Ramey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2019-03-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107035473 |
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Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
Author | : Jesmyn Ward |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408830485 |
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'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet TubmanIn five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue high education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.
Author | : Richard D. Bucher |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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What's It Like, Living Green? provides stories about families who live green, kids who are making a difference for the earth and suggestions for things you can do to make a difference.
Author | : Chester B. Himes |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393318296 |
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