Essays about: "Antebellum America"

Found 5 essays containing the words Antebellum America.

1. 1. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Sara Calmius; [2024]
   Keywords : Resistance studies; Everyday resistance; Harriet Jacobs; Black motherhood; Antebellum America; Slavery;

   Abstract : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. READ MORE

3. 2. The Downfall and Rebirth of Nash Williams

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Max Sjölander; [2020]
   Keywords : displacement; identity; diaspora; psychoanalysis; postcolonialism;

   Abstract : This essay will analyze the character Nash Williams from Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River from a postcolonial and psychoanalytical perspective. The purpose is to understand how the horrors of slavery and abuse affected the psyche of Nash Williams. READ MORE

4. 3. Manifestations of Capitalism from a Marxist Perspective : A comparison of Cultural Values and Moral Codes in Moby Dick and David Copperfield

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Graham Hepworth; [2018]
   Keywords : Marxism; Victorian; antebellum; Romanticism; Realism; feudalism; bourgeois; aristocracy; capitalism; manifest destiny;

   Abstract : This is a study of Charles Dickens David Copperfield and Herman Melville Moby Dick from a Marxist perspective, exploring the different manifestations of the capitalist system, with critical reference to the theories of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton. It will attempt to understand cultural differences, values and moral codes, that the two novels reveal about Victorian England and Antebellum America, at this point in literary history, the decade of time with 1850 at its centre. READ MORE

5. 4. Ambiguity and Ambiguous Identities in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Susan Doyle; [2016]
   Keywords : African diaspora; ambiguity; double consciousness; unhomeliness; mimicry; postcolonial; contrapuntal; imperialist; slavery; ideologies.;

   Abstract : In the first chapter of Crossing the River (1993), Caryl Phillips depicts the dilemma of a fluid identity for the peoples of the African diaspora and their descendants by using ambiguity to simulate feelings of contradiction, liminality and a double consciousness. The first character, Nash Williams, struggles with his cultural identity as an emancipated, black slave and missionary who is repatriated in Africa to convert the pagans of Liberia. READ MORE

6. 5. Troubled Masculinity in Washington Irving’s “Rip van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in the Historical Context of Antebellum America

   University essay from Engelska

   Author : Hanieh Vahabi; [2011]
   Keywords : Gender studies;

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