Essays about: "womanism"

Found 5 essays containing the word womanism.

  1. 1. Kambili’s Journey to Dignity, and Self-empowerment : A Womanist Approach to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Nicky Nahida Lindecrantz; [2022]
    Keywords : change; Christianity; dignity; identity; Igbo tradition; interaction; liberal- and radical feminism; mimicry; Nigeria; patriarchal violence; postcolonialism; self-empowerment; womanism;

    Abstract : Using womanist theory as a theoretical framework, this study has analyzed identity formation and self-empowerment. Adichie is considered a feminist writer, but her ideals and ideas are very different from Western ideals and aim to survive and challenge patriarchal culture. READ MORE

  3. 2. Strength in Numbers : A Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Mårten Wahlström; [2021]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; Alice Walker; literature; feminism; feminist analysis; womanism; psychoanalysis;

    Abstract : The Color Purple (1982) is a well-known feminist work of literature written by the ‘womanist’ Alice Walker. This analysis sought to analyse Walker’s novel in order to identify and discuss the criticism of patriarchal power relations in the novel. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Product of Womanism: Shug Avery in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Anna Janusiewicz; [2014]
    Keywords : Feminism Black Feminism Alice Walker The Color Purple Shug Avery Womanism;

    Abstract : Feminism in the early 1980's in the United States revolved much around social and cultural matters such as sexual liberation, self- definition and self- realization for women. Derived from these ideas within feminism comes Alice Walker's Womanism, that is the writer's own definition of the strong and independent woman of color. READ MORE

  5. 4. Alice Walker and the Grotesque in The Third Life of Grange Copeland

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Anette Karjalainen; [2012]
    Keywords : Alice Walker; grotesque; whiteness; womanism; Bakhtin; racism; US South;

    Abstract : This essay examines the uses of the grotesque in Alice Walker’s novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Published in 1970 the novel has been subject to various readings by diverse scholars. However, previous research has failed to take into account the displays of the grotesque in the novel. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Emancipation of Celie : The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Sofia Sundqvist; [2006]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; womanism; Bildungsroman; womanist Bildungsroman; Celie; Sofia; Shug; pantheism;

    Abstract : The Emancipation of Celie: The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman The purpose of this essay is to study The Color Purple as a Bildungsroman, focusing on the development of the protagonist, Celie. The Color Purple is related to both the traditional Bildungsroman and to the female Bildungsroman, but the essay shows that it can also be seen as a womanist Bildungsroman. READ MORE