Essays about: "unhomeliness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word unhomeliness.

  1. 1. ‘‘Well, thank God I did not have to do that.’’: How Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy Can Be Used To Enhance an Understanding of Postcolonial Theory in the ESL Classroom

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nadine Noureddine; [2023]
    Keywords : Postcolonial theory; othering; unhomeliness; postcolonial teaching; collaborative learning;

    Abstract : Teachers tend to refrain from using a postcolonial perspective in their teaching of literaturebecause they do not know quite how to approach the task. The purpose of this essay is to remedy such a problem. The argument is built on three concepts: unhomeliness, dual identities and othering. READ MORE

  3. 2. Crossing the River : An Example of Black Politics of Resistance

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Anders Wåke; [2021]
    Keywords : African diaspora; hybridity; unhomeliness; postcolonial; slavery; colonial discourse.;

    Abstract : Caryl Phillis’s novel Crossing the River tells a story of the African diaspora caused by the slave trade. The novel not only depicts the physical aspect of diasporic life, but also sheds light on the cognitive aspects. READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Ambiguity and Ambiguous Identities in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Susan Doyle; [2016]
    Keywords : African diaspora; ambiguity; double consciousness; unhomeliness; mimicry; postcolonial; contrapuntal; imperialist; slavery; ideologies.;

    Abstract : In the first chapter of Crossing the River (1993), Caryl Phillips depicts the dilemma of a fluid identity for the peoples of the African diaspora and their descendants by using ambiguity to simulate feelings of contradiction, liminality and a double consciousness. The first character, Nash Williams, struggles with his cultural identity as an emancipated, black slave and missionary who is repatriated in Africa to convert the pagans of Liberia. READ MORE

  6. 5. Cultural Trauma and Cultural Identity : A Study of Pilate in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Ulrika Persson; [2014]
    Keywords : African-American; cultural trauma; cultural identity; identity formation; double consciousness; unhomeliness; the Other ;

    Abstract : This essay is a study of the character Pilate in Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon. It employs a postcolonial theoretical perspective in order to explore the cultural trauma that Pilate experiences in the aftermath of slavery. Furthermore, it analyses the impact of that trauma on the formation of Pilate’s own cultural identity. READ MORE