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Crossing multiple worlds in multicultural literature: A possible worlds reading of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Michelle Cliff

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2002
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A mimetic approach to multicultural texts assumes that literary representations are reflections of real life situations and persons. Moving beyond a mimetic approach, I argue that the multicultural works examined in this thesis present an odyssey: characters travel across cultural, political, spiritual, and imaginative space and readers follow those characters through their journeys. Applying possible worlds theory to literature written by African-American and Caribbean female writers allows a reading which never loses sight of the political or cultural ties to our actual world, but sees them as altered by the authors in all sorts of interesting ways.
Title: Crossing multiple worlds in multicultural literature: A possible worlds reading of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Michelle Cliff.
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Name(s): Smith, Craig Adrian.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Stover, Johnnie, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 2002
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 88 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: A mimetic approach to multicultural texts assumes that literary representations are reflections of real life situations and persons. Moving beyond a mimetic approach, I argue that the multicultural works examined in this thesis present an odyssey: characters travel across cultural, political, spiritual, and imaginative space and readers follow those characters through their journeys. Applying possible worlds theory to literature written by African-American and Caribbean female writers allows a reading which never loses sight of the political or cultural ties to our actual world, but sees them as altered by the authors in all sorts of interesting ways.
Identifier: 9780493912929 (isbn), 12941 (digitool), FADT12941 (IID), fau:9813 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2002.
Subject(s): Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation
Naylor, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation
Cliff, Michelle--Criticism and interpretation
Multiculturalism in literature
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