Essays about: "Alice Walker"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Alice Walker.
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1. Glauber Monte Carlo for proton-proton and virtual-photon-proton collisions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Teoretisk partikelfysik - Geonomgår omorganisationAbstract : In high energy physics, we want to probe the inner structures and behaviours of the particles that are the building blocks of our universe. This is often done by colliding nuclei together. READ MORE
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2. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. READ MORE
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3. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. READ MORE
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4. Strength in Numbers : A Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The Color Purple (1982) is a well-known feminist work of literature written by the ‘womanist’ Alice Walker. This analysis sought to analyse Walker’s novel in order to identify and discuss the criticism of patriarchal power relations in the novel. READ MORE
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5. Approaching the Ideal Self through Love: Lacan’s objet petit a and Representations of Love in The Color Purple, Poor Things, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : Using Jacques Lacan’s theories of subjectivity, this dissertation analyses the relationships between the ideal selves and the romantic desires of characters in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondous Life of Oscar Wao. Lacan argues that there is an inherent lack in all human beings, stemming from incompleteness and early helplessness, and employs the notion of the objet petit a, the cause for desire, to represent a subject’s desire to redress their lack. READ MORE