Essays about: "Olive Senior"

Found 1 essay containing the words Olive Senior.

  1. 1. The Projector Principle as a Means of Portraying the Cultural through the Personal in Olive Senior's Summer Lightning and Other Stories.

    University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Ekaterina Zelenenkaya; [2012]
    Keywords : Olive Senior; Summer Lightning; projector principle; allegory; postcolonialism; postcolonial literature; personal identity; cultural identity; identity; identity construction; postcolonial Jamaica; short stories; Subaltern; creole; historical consciousness; colonial trauma;

    Abstract : The essay represents the projector principle, on which, as the essay’s author believes, the narration of The Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior is based. The projector principle illustrates the idea that little details and images in the text serve big purposes, for example, reflect the emotional state of the characters or how the characters construct their identity. READ MORE