Essays about: "slavery fiction"

Found 2 essays containing the words slavery fiction.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

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

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Development of Henry Townsend in The Known World by Edward P. Jones

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Tobias Andersson; [2006]
    Keywords : slavery in literature; slaveri i litteraturen; slavery fiction; father and child in literature; utvecklingsromaner; English literature; Engelsk litteratur; Languages and Literatures;

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