Essays about: "chora"

Found 3 essays containing the word chora.

  1. 1. The Healing Power of the Ghost In Toni Morrison’s Beloved : An Analysis Through the Poststructuralist Lens

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Eva Yigit; [2020]
    Keywords : abject; Beloved; Derrida; deconstruction; écriture féminine; ghost; Kristeva; Morrison; motherhood; poststructuralism; semiotic order; spectrality; slavery; trauma.;

    Abstract : This paper utilizes poststructuralist theory to investigate the polysemic nature of the eponymous character Beloved in Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved. The ghostly, anachronistic presence of Beloved renders the text open to multiple interpretations and this essay sets out to explore the ways in which meaning is created and communicated. READ MORE

  3. 2. "In the Beginning Was the Word." The road towards a Speaking Subject in Jane Hamilton's The Book of Ruth

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Annika Jansdotter; [2004]
    Keywords : re-constructing a subject; Jane Hamilton; Julia Kristeva; Jaques Lacan; the symbolic order; the semiotic chora;

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  4. 3. Aspects of Liminality in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Ann-Jeanett Stål; [2004]
    Keywords : Eilis Ni Dhuibhne; The Dancers Dancing; Liminality; Victor Turner; Irish Dance; dance; Rite of Passage; Kristeva; chora;

    Abstract : In this essay I refer Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s narrative construction of the main characters and the theme of the novel The Dancers Dancing, in the context of the anthropologist Victor Turner’s concept of liminality. Thus the summer in the Gaeltacht that five teenage girls experience, can be understood as a depiction of the liminal phase in a rite of passage. READ MORE