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“Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997)
Title
“Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997).
Creator
Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Graduate College
Date Issued
2011-04-08
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164529
Subject Headings
Authorship --Sex differences, Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism, Caribbean Area --Fiction
Format
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The Reversal Of Fortune: The Taking Back Of The Dominant Role In Latina Fiction
Title
The Reversal Of Fortune: The Taking Back Of The Dominant Role In Latina Fiction.
Creator
Barron, Kimberly D., Machado, Elena, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
The two authors being discussed in this study have chosen to create characters that face the struggle against the age-old belief system that the man of the household is the ruler and decision maker. These authors reconnect with Cuba and its treatment of women by examining a Cuban woman's role in society. Cristina Garcia and Achy Obejas both create female characters that step outside the boundaries of traditional Cuban gender roles. These women writers decidedly write female narratives that...
Show moreThe two authors being discussed in this study have chosen to create characters that face the struggle against the age-old belief system that the man of the household is the ruler and decision maker. These authors reconnect with Cuba and its treatment of women by examining a Cuban woman's role in society. Cristina Garcia and Achy Obejas both create female characters that step outside the boundaries of traditional Cuban gender roles. These women writers decidedly write female narratives that emerge beyond the cultural family dynamic followed for decades. Finally, the narrative voice is strong and it is female. I chose the following texts from each author: Dreaming in Cuban and The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia and Days of Awe and Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas. The interesting link between these two authors is their creation of strong exiled and native female characters in their works of fiction.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000892
Format
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(Re)making men, representing the Caribbean Nation: authorialIndividuation in works by Fred D’Aguiar, Robert Antoni, andMarlon James
Title
(Re)making men, representing the Caribbean Nation: authorialIndividuation in works by Fred D’Aguiar, Robert Antoni, andMarlon James.
Creator
Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This dissertation proposes that West Indian contemporary male writers develop literary authority, or a voice that represents the nation, via a process of individuation. This process enables the contemporary male writer to unite the disparities of the matriarchal and patriarchal authorial traditions that inform his development of a distinctive creative identity. I outline three stages of authorial individuation that are inspired by Jung’s theory of individuation. The first is the contemporary...
Show moreThis dissertation proposes that West Indian contemporary male writers develop literary authority, or a voice that represents the nation, via a process of individuation. This process enables the contemporary male writer to unite the disparities of the matriarchal and patriarchal authorial traditions that inform his development of a distinctive creative identity. I outline three stages of authorial individuation that are inspired by Jung’s theory of individuation. The first is the contemporary male writer’s return to his nationalist forebears’ tradition to dissolve his persona, or identification with patriarchal authority; Fred D’Aguiar’s “The Last Essay About Slavery” and Feeding the Ghosts illustrate this stage. The second is his reconciliation of matriarchal (present) and patriarchal (past) traditions of literary authority via his encounter with his forebears’ feminized, raced shadow; Robert Antoni’s Blessed Is the Fruit evidences this process. The third is the contemporary male writer’s renunciation of authority defined by masculinity, which emerges as his incorporation of the anima, or unconscious feminine; Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women exemplifies this final phase of his individuation.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004021
Subject Headings
Antoni, Robert -- 1958- -- Blessed is the fruit -- Criticism and interpretation, D'Aguiar, Fred -- 1960- -- Feeding the ghosts -- Criticism and interpretation, D'Aguiar, Fred -- 1960- -- Last essay about slavery -- Criticism and interpretation, James, Marlon -- 1970- -- Book of night women -- Criticism and interpretation, Jungian psychology
Format
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There's A New Sheriff in Town: Caribbean Rewriting of the American Western in Perry Henzell and Michael Thelwell's The Harder They Come and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow
Title
There's A New Sheriff in Town: Caribbean Rewriting of the American Western in Perry Henzell and Michael Thelwell's The Harder They Come and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow.
Creator
Wilson, Paula J., Machado, Elena, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this investigation is to analyze the ways in which the American Western genre has been reworked in an Anglophone Caribbean context. This paper focuses on the role of the cowboy figure as it pertains to both a postcolonial Jamaican context a more globalized, diasporic Anglophone Caribbean setting. The Western genre, while not typically associated with the Caribbean, has tropes that certainly occur in both film and literature. There is not much scholarship that details the...
Show moreThe purpose of this investigation is to analyze the ways in which the American Western genre has been reworked in an Anglophone Caribbean context. This paper focuses on the role of the cowboy figure as it pertains to both a postcolonial Jamaican context a more globalized, diasporic Anglophone Caribbean setting. The Western genre, while not typically associated with the Caribbean, has tropes that certainly occur in both film and literature. There is not much scholarship that details the importance of this reimagination as a positive association in the region, and I have chosen both the film and novel The Harder They Come by Perry Henzell and Michael Thelwell, respectively, and Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall to trace these ideas. Together, these works provide a multifaceted understanding of how the American Western helps to interpret the Anglophone Caribbean as a participant in an increasingly globalized world.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004557, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004557
Subject Headings
Caribbean Area -- Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Caribbean Area -- In literature, Henzell, Perry -- Harder they come -- Criticism and interpretation, Jamaica -- Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Marshall, Paule -- Praisesong for the widow -- Criticism and interpretation, Thelwell, Michael -- Harder they come -- Criticism and interpretation, Western films -- United States -- History and criticism
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