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Recurring vocabularies: Narrating voices in "Anne John", "Jasmine", and "Middle Passage"

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1997
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This thesis examines the first-person narrator's development of an autonomous identity, which is characterized by the individual's self-interest on the one hand and social engagement on the other, in the following novels: Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John (1983), Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989), and Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990). Examination focuses on autobiographical moments in which language discloses identity development as each narrator employs a unique vocabulary and rhetorical strategies to build and maintain autonomous identity, establish social relationships, and infuse life with personal and collective meaning. Recurrent vocabularies and rhetoric produce narrative voices of distinction as well as of similarity in the negotiation of self and collective interests in a world of social and cultural structures that circumscribe identity.
Title: Recurring vocabularies: Narrating voices in "Anne John", "Jasmine", and "Middle Passage".
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Name(s): Schlosser, Donna J.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Lewis, Krishnakali, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1997
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 98 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis examines the first-person narrator's development of an autonomous identity, which is characterized by the individual's self-interest on the one hand and social engagement on the other, in the following novels: Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John (1983), Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989), and Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990). Examination focuses on autobiographical moments in which language discloses identity development as each narrator employs a unique vocabulary and rhetorical strategies to build and maintain autonomous identity, establish social relationships, and infuse life with personal and collective meaning. Recurrent vocabularies and rhetoric produce narrative voices of distinction as well as of similarity in the negotiation of self and collective interests in a world of social and cultural structures that circumscribe identity.
Identifier: 9780591312867 (isbn), 15386 (digitool), FADT15386 (IID), fau:12153 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1997.
Subject(s): Kincaid, Jamaica--Annie John
Mukherjee, Bharati--Jasmine
Johnson, Charles Richard,--1948---Middle passage
First person narrative
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