Essays about: "African heritage"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the words African heritage.

  1. 11. Speaking With Our Spirits : A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Chelsea Foreman; [2017]
    Keywords : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chinua Achebe; African Literature; Postcolonialism; Purple Hibiscus; Colonial Nigeria; Religion; Christianity; Language; Behaviour; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chinua Achebe; Afrikansk Litteratur; Postkolonialism; Purple Hibiscus; Koloniala Nigeria; Religion; Kristendom; Språk; Beteende;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to conduct a character analysis on Eugene Achike from Chimamana Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus, to see whether or not the character is used by Adichie as a portrayal of colonial Nigeria and its values. I have done this by looking at the themes of violence and hypocrisy in relation to Eugene’s language usage, religious attitude, and behaviour towards others, and comparing these aspects of his personality with the attitudes shown by colonialists in colonial Nigeria. READ MORE

  3. 12. Black Feminist Theory and Literature in the Critical Language Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Study of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and How It Can Be Used to Engage in Critical Pedagogy in the Swedish Upper Secondary ESL Classroom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Sofia Hammarström; [2015]
    Keywords : The Swedish National Curriculum for the Upper Secondary School; critical pedagogy; critical theory; literature; Black feminist criticism; Octavia E. Butler; Kindred; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to consider how teachers of English as a second language (ESL) might engage with critical pedagogy through the use of literature. This is illustrated by, on the one hand, applying a Black feminist lens to Octavia E. READ MORE

  4. 13. Cultural Trauma and Cultural Identity : A Study of Pilate in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Ulrika Persson; [2014]
    Keywords : African-American; cultural trauma; cultural identity; identity formation; double consciousness; unhomeliness; the Other ;

    Abstract : This essay is a study of the character Pilate in Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon. It employs a postcolonial theoretical perspective in order to explore the cultural trauma that Pilate experiences in the aftermath of slavery. Furthermore, it analyses the impact of that trauma on the formation of Pilate’s own cultural identity. READ MORE

  5. 14. Ethnic fragmentation and political instability in post-colonial Uganda : understanding the contribution of colonial rule to the plights of the Acholi people in Northern Uganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Hannes Tornberg; [2013]
    Keywords : political instability; marginalization; Human Rights Watch; ethnicity; ethnic fragmentation; colonialism; Acholi; Africa; post-colonial; Uganda; mänskliga rättigheter; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Uganda, along with a number of other African states, is a state struggling with the task of bringing together a vast range of ethnic minority groups into one nation-state decided by geographical borders drawn by colonial masters Britain during imperialism. The effects of these colonial decisions and policies are widely known to having plagued the native population during the course of history. READ MORE

  6. 15. Transatlantic Literary Triangle: The ‘Africanness’ of Writers of African Origin and Descent

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Nwoalezea Patrick Nwoalezea; [2012]
    Keywords : LCM - Literature; Culture and Media; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Africa has suffered two traumatizing events in history that have helped shape the present day individual, be it on the continent or in the diaspora. First there was the transatlantic slave trade that spanned from the 15th century to the late 19th century and saw the inhuman and forceful transportation of Africans to plantations and homes in the Americas. READ MORE