Essays about: "Alexandra Torsell Starud"

Found 1 essay containing the words Alexandra Torsell Starud.

  1. 1. Shopping for an I : Consumer identities in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Alexandra Torsell Starud; [2019]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; Intersectional; BLM; Consumerism;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates to role consumerism plays when young, black, underclass characters try to build their identities in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give (2017). Through implementing intersectional analysis and postcolonial theory this essay discusses how social positions are read and understood in a mass culture that heavily favours the visual. READ MORE