Current Search: Possibility in literature (x)
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Multicultural criticism and the problem of critical uniformity: A reading of Gloria Naylor's "Linden Hills".
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Creator
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Lombard, Cathy Eunice., Florida Atlantic University, Martin, Thomas L.
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Much of postcolonial and feminist criticisms reflect on how the oppressor-oppressed relationship of the past affects the present. However, possible-worlds theory expands these critical borders and respects the differences existing between textual world and actual world, supplying readers with the interpretive power to recognize that every past and present is complete with "possibilities" not yet explored. The fantastical elements of Gloria Naylor's narrative worlds complement the overall...
Show moreMuch of postcolonial and feminist criticisms reflect on how the oppressor-oppressed relationship of the past affects the present. However, possible-worlds theory expands these critical borders and respects the differences existing between textual world and actual world, supplying readers with the interpretive power to recognize that every past and present is complete with "possibilities" not yet explored. The fantastical elements of Gloria Naylor's narrative worlds complement the overall fiction. Through three conflicting narrative frames, she shows characters negotiating their assigned space in the inverted world of Linden Hills, not a mimetic representation exactly but reminiscent of Dante and Poe and compelling on its own. Forcing the reader to reevaluate settled assumptions about the actual world, in Linden Hills, Naylor presents the generational re-spawning, and ultimately the breaking, of patriarchy concentrated in the figure of Luther Nedeed.
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Date Issued
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2002
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12885
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Subject Headings
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Naylor, Gloria--Linden Hills, African Americans in literature, Feminist literary criticism, Possibility in literature
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Document (PDF)
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Symbiosis and exchange in multicultural spaces: A study of Nadine Gordimer and Joy Harjo.
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Nixon, Angelique V., Florida Atlantic University, Martin, Thomas L.
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Multicultural literature opens up unique "worlds" that allow readers to experience multicultural spaces; these works are not only representations of real-world conditions, as many critics posit, but also "possible worlds" artfully constructed that transport readers to unfamiliar places. This thesis presents an analysis of the unique symbiosis and exchange that occurs between reader and author in multicultural literature through the use of possible-worlds theory. This study shows how such...
Show moreMulticultural literature opens up unique "worlds" that allow readers to experience multicultural spaces; these works are not only representations of real-world conditions, as many critics posit, but also "possible worlds" artfully constructed that transport readers to unfamiliar places. This thesis presents an analysis of the unique symbiosis and exchange that occurs between reader and author in multicultural literature through the use of possible-worlds theory. This study shows how such texts support a complex relationship between the real and the fictional through a process I deem "multicultural symbiosis." Two strategically chosen texts are considered, each representing a different socio-political-cultural context as well as a different literary genre: Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story, a realist novel set in South Africa; and Joy Harjo's A Map to the Next World, a historical-mystical cycle of poems and tales that draw on Native-American heritage.
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Date Issued
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2002
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12921
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Subject Headings
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Gordimer, Nadine--My son's story, Harjo, Joy--Map to the next world, Pluralism (Social science) in literature, Possibility in literature
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Document (PDF)
