Essays about: "Double-Consciousness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word 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. 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

  5. 4. Voices as Weapons : Incorporating The Hate U Give in the EFL classroom to discuss institutional racism, double-consciousness and the importance of minoritized voices

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Amy Roxburgh; [2020]
    Keywords : EFL; Upper Secondary school; Young Adult Literature; Angie Thomas; The Hate U Give; Critical Race Theory Pedagogy; Institutional Racism; Double-Consciousness; Minoritized Voices; Gymnasieskola; Engelska; Ungdomslitteratur; Angie Thomas; The Hate U Give; Critical Race Teori Pedagogik; Institutionell rasism; Dubbelmedvetenhet; Marginaliserade röster;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is two-fold. Firstly, the aim is to analyze the three aspects institutional racism, double-consciousness and importance of minoritized voices in Angie Thomas’ novel The Hate U Give in connection to the thesis’ theoretical framework, Critical Race Theory. READ MORE

  6. 5. Martha's Unhomely Quest for the Homely : A Postcolonial Reading of the Protagonist Martha in Doris Lessing's Martha Quest

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Annika Salisbury; [2019]
    Keywords : Doris Lessing; double consciousness; Homi Bhabha; Martha Quest; postcolonial theory; unhomeliness; Doris Lessing; dubbelt medvetande; Homi Bhabha; Martha Quest; postkolonial teori; o-hemlikhet;

    Abstract : The protagonist Martha in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest is born to white British settler parents and grows up in a British colony in southern Africa in the 1930s. Although officially the coloniser rather than the colonised, Martha tries to reject this role mentally, verbally, and physically. READ MORE