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Resistance through liminality: A study of Michelle Cliff's "Abeng" and "No Telephone to Heaven"
Title
Resistance through liminality: A study of Michelle Cliff's "Abeng" and "No Telephone to Heaven".
Creator
Trewick, Lilleth Evadney., Florida Atlantic University, Xu, Wenying
Abstract/Description
This thesis argues that postcolonial women are doubly oppressed under colonialism and patriarchy. In many instances, women's acts of resistance are overlooked through discursive practices that erroneously portray women as passive victims. In order to correct this misrepresentation of women, Michelle Cliff chronicles women's oppression as well as their numerous acts of resistance in Abeng and No Telephone To Heaven. Cliff, thus, ruptures the colonial and patriarchal myths that render women...
Show moreThis thesis argues that postcolonial women are doubly oppressed under colonialism and patriarchy. In many instances, women's acts of resistance are overlooked through discursive practices that erroneously portray women as passive victims. In order to correct this misrepresentation of women, Michelle Cliff chronicles women's oppression as well as their numerous acts of resistance in Abeng and No Telephone To Heaven. Cliff, thus, ruptures the colonial and patriarchal myths that render women powerless. Central to this thesis, is the argument that the liminal space is critical for empowerment and resistance. Liminality allows an individual to occupy two diverse worlds creating what Homi K. Bhabha calls a "Third Space." This Third Space offers migrant subjects such as Michelle Cliff a good vantage point from which to observe and record the oppression and resistance of the colonized. The thesis utilizes postcolonial theory to explicate the fragmented and contradictory experience of the colonized.
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Date Issued
2003
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13046
Subject Headings
Cliff, Michelle--Abeng, Cliff, Michelle--No telephone to heaven, Liminality in literature, Postcolonialism
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Document (PDF)
Rewriting history in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Michelle Cliff's Abeng
Title
Rewriting history in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World and Michelle Cliff's Abeng.
Creator
Amiel, Tricia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng,...
Show moreTraditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342034
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Slavery, Historiography, Slavery, Historiography, Slavery, Historiography, History
Format
Document (PDF)
Crossing multiple worlds in multicultural literature: A possible worlds reading of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Michelle Cliff
Title
Crossing multiple worlds in multicultural literature: A possible worlds reading of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Michelle Cliff.
Creator
Smith, Craig Adrian., Florida Atlantic University, Stover, Johnnie
Abstract/Description
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...
Show moreA 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.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12941
Subject Headings
Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation, Naylor, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation, Cliff, Michelle--Criticism and interpretation, Multiculturalism in literature
Format
Document (PDF)