Essays about: "Jackie Kay"

Found 2 essays containing the words Jackie Kay.

  1. 1. The self is to be told : Gender, identity and the telling of stories in Jackie Kay's Trumpet

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Julia Englund Örn; [2010]
    Keywords : Gender; Identity; Narratology; Jackie Kay; Trumpet;

    Abstract : Notable in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet, a story about a jazz musician that all his adult life pretended to be a man, is the many voices that bring their stories to the novel. The voices give life to Joss Moody, who recently passed away, by telling stories of and about him. READ MORE

  3. 2. Who are these people? Really? : Heteronormative discourse and Jackie Kay's Trumpet

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Anne-Marie Knockaert; [2009]
    Keywords : heteronormativity; English literature; discourse;

    Abstract : The main topic of this essay is heteronormativity and the main question is how Jackie Kay’s Trumpet relates to this concept. My assumption is that Kay has created a main protagonist that seems to completely coincide with heteronormative discourse only to show us how insufficient this discourse is when it comes to identifying people. READ MORE