Essays about: "Double consciousness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words Double consciousness.

  1. 1. From Bondage to Advocacy : Gender, Double Consciousness and Abolitionist Persuasion in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Hanna Engström; [2024]
    Keywords : Harriet Jacobs; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; slave narrative; gender; double consciousness; abolitionism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to explore how the interplay between gender and double consciousness is used as a rhetorical device in Harriet Jacobs’ autobiographical narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861). Through a feminist theoretical lens and the concept of double consciousness I provide examples from the text illustrating Jacobs’ strategic use of different narrative techniques to convey her abolitionist message. READ MORE

  3. 2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Strengthening Women’s Decision-Making Power: Examining Local Participation in Forest and Pasture Users’ Associations in Albania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Victoria Johansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Women’s Empowerment; Community Based Forestry; Participation; Decision-Making; Agency; Albania; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Efforts to empower Albanian women and strengthen their participation in decision-making in local Forest and Pasture Users’ Associations (FPUAs) have been undertaken by the Environmental Services Project, including implementing the Gender Action Plan. The phenomenon of women’s agency and participation in decision-making in this local setting is examined in this study by answering the following: (I) Who currently holds the majority of decision-making power in FPUAs and why? (II) What factors determine women’s participation and decision-making power in FPUAs? (III) How can women’s participation in and influence on decision-making in FPUAs be enhanced? The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with project implementers and an online survey with FPUA members. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Inner Gaze In Artistic Practice

    University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola

    Author : Safoura Safavi; [2021]
    Keywords : inner seeing; double vision; altered states of consciousness; music; hypnosis; consciousness science; inner realms; communication;

    Abstract : ”A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon...” -Buddhist Quote ”. READ MORE

  6. 5. The African Presence and Limits of Double Consciousness in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Tanya Odenyo; [2021]
    Keywords : Double consciousness; representation; African diaspora; identity;

    Abstract : Set against the backdrop of the Transatlantic slave trade, Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River can be read as a novel which explores severed family ties and the intertwined relationship between the dominant and the subdued within the African diaspora. Questions concerning “race”, identity and representation can be traced in all the narratives and are also the focus of this essay. READ MORE