Essays about: "Girl"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 175 essays containing the word Girl.
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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 universitetAbstract : 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
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2. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. READ MORE
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3. Gender Performativity and Compulsory Heterosexuality in L.M. Montgomery´s Anne of Green Gables
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : This essay will demonstrate how the character Anne from Anne of Green Gables is open to multiple interpretations. I specifically look at the character Anne from the perspective of gender and queer theory. Anne can be read as someone who has both feminine and masculine traits. READ MORE
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4. A Gender-Bending Odyssey : Queer Self-Formation and Shapeshifting in Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : .... READ MORE
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5. “I’m a girl. But now I’m a boy too”: Queerness and autonomy in Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden (1986) and “The Sea Change” (1931)
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelskaAbstract : Much has been written about Hemingway’s works from a feminist or queer perspective, including the relation between Hemingway’s biography and his representation of female characters, female domination and homosexuality. In comparison, the queer sub-field of transgender studies, which entails analyzing gender transgression and influence, has received little attention by scholars of Hemingway studies. READ MORE