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The Awakening of Self-consciousness of the African American Women—an Analysis of Dee in Everyday Use
Alice Walker is one of the prominent American writers in American women’s literature and black literature in 1950s-1960s. Everyday Use is regarded as Alice Walker’s best-written short story. The prevailing opinion among the critics about this story is that Dee is the traitor of black American’s cultural heritage, and the mother and Maggie are the hope of true value of the African Americans’ tradition and heritage; however, after considering the historical and cultural background of the story, we may safely come to the conclusion that Dee actually took the first step toward the awakening of self-consciousness of the African Americans women. 相似文献
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Scarlett who was the heroine in the world famous book Gone with the Wind,is regarded as one of the most impressive images in the world literature.Her charm lies in her perverse personality of independence and her spirit of freedom.This essay analyzes the characters of the heroine through highlighting women’s social status in the South during the age of Scarlett’s time.It could be safely concluded that Scarlett’s characters and her courage to face the difficulties during the war reveal the awakening of women’s self-consciousness and the realization of feminine value. 相似文献
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In 1993,the Nobel Prize of Literature was granted to an American black woman writer,Toni Morrison.She disclosed the features of language in her Nobel Lecture with a story of"the bird-in-hand".Language is both a tool of the ruling class to govern people and a tool fort he common people to understand society and express themselves.Morrison has a deep understanding of it and makes good use of the features to express women’s liberation and racial liberation in her works,which make her language peculiar and her ... 相似文献
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As one of the greatest Afro-American writers of the 20th century during the period of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston drew on her own experiences as a feminist Afro-American female to create a story of a female character Janie Crawford in her book There Eyes were Watching God. In the history of literature, it has come to be regarded as a"seminal work in both African-American literature and Woman’s literature."(Louis Gates 1993). The main character Janie Crawford is definitely a typical representative of feminism and feminist movement and as a women who successfully achieved her self-consciousness, she has been commenting and criticizing for a long period of time. This research paper will analyzes how Janie achieves her self-awakening in the man-dominated society through Janie’s childhood and her three periods of completely different marriages. 相似文献
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Emily Dickinson,one of America’s great poets and a precursor of the Imagist movement in American literature,who was born on December 10,1830 and died unmarried in 1886 in Amherst,lived her life in complete shadow,abnormally shy and even not leaved her house.Confining herself exclusively to poetry.In her life, she was nobody (only several poems got published), but after her death she gained the recognition of the world and so became somebody.Emily Dickinson’s poetry had been controversially discussed because of the unique style.As three aspects which are related to religion affected her poetic personality,there are profound characteristics of religious culture in her poem.she finally establishes her own unique religious outlook. 相似文献
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叶渝 《读与写:教育教学刊》2013,(3):18-19
As one of the most mysterious female poets in the history American literature,Emily Dickinson leads a life in solitude more than 20 years.Because of her early life experience and her absorption of Emerson’s transcendentalism theory,Dickinson developed her own interpretation to solitude,which brings unique beauty to her poems,and makes her distinguished among her contemporaries. 相似文献
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain’s masterpiece,the one book from which,as Ernest Hemingway noted," All modern American literature comes ".It accounts the adventures of white Huck helping black slave Jim escape and pursue freedom.Through their long journey along the Mississippi River,we can see panorama of America,such as its slavery,racial conflicts and integration,American Puritanism,and Westward Movement,etc.This thesis mainly deals with Americans’national traits reflected in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of American developmental history and American culture. 相似文献
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As the first African American woman winner of the Nobel Prize for literature,Toni Morrison is the most outstanding African-American woman author of the 20th century and the brightest star in contemporary African-American literary arena.Toni Morrison is a voluminous writer and she has published nine novels up to the present.Since 1980,her works have been getting more and more widespread attention from literary critics of the world since 1980s.The topic of postcolonialism has been the one of the focuses of Morrison’ s novels.This paper is a literature review of Toni Morrison and postcolonialism in her works including the following points:a brief introduction to Morrison and her works,the research on Morrison,the post colonial theory and postcolonialism in Morrison’ s works. 相似文献
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Kate Chopin,one of the most outstanding women writers in the late nineteenth century in America,focused on women’s social position,marriage and family,love and freedom to fight against patriarchalism.She wrote two novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s.And over a long period of time,critics have considered The Story of an Hour as a work of feminism which offers a strikingly feminist perspective on an American housewife of that time.This thesis analyzes the inner experience of the heroine within an hour and shows us that freedom is so essential to her while her marriage is a yoke to her. 相似文献
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Alice Walker’s famous short story Everyday Use reveals African American’s awareness of cultural heritage, which is deeply affected by the"double consciousness"as well as their racial identification in the Civil Rights Movement. Through the exploration of the cultural conflict reflected in Everyday Use by relating to the influence on black people produced by the AfricanAmerican Civil Rights Movement, and the discussion of the different attitudes of the mother and her daughters towards their cultural heritage, the essay aims to reinforce Alice Walker’s claim that any attempt to lay too much emphasis on the ideas of utilitarian return to black people’s traditional culture is shallow and superficial. 相似文献
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Willa Cather is one of the most famous female writers in American literary history.The Song of the Lark is the early work of Willa Cather.The thesis intends to offer a thorough study on the heroine’s image of The Song of the Lark with the myth and archetypal criticism to have an elaborate discussion on how the heroine of this work is embodied by the archetypal goddess of Muse so as to explore how Cather suggests her deep themes and expresses her permanent pursuit of art. 相似文献
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Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist in the nineteenth century.He has produced numerous works including novels and poetry.His tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles has a great impact on the world literature.The paper is focused on the exploration of Tess’s tragedy through her life experiences.Tess’s tragedy can be illustrated by three factors—her family aspects,love experiences and her social images,which also contribute collectively to poor Tess’s destiny.The social background of the period provides a basis for the novel,and the deformed social values and morality is the root of her tragedy,together with her personal temperament and the Christian religious influences.Christian mores of self-sacrifice,wide love and purity have a great effect on characters in the novel.In the fourth part,there is some enlightenment from Tess’s tragedy.It is believed that women play a crucial role in society.Tess is a woman with good qualities and her experiences give a warning to women today:the proper treatment of one’s behaviors and the social rules is critical. 相似文献
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WAN Hai-yan 《海外英语》2014,(13):184-185,187
The peculiar images,the boat and the sea,often recur in the poems of Emily Dickinson,the great American poet,which well reflect her internal conflicts,the conflicts between being an autonomous woman and being a passionate yet submissive woman.In her poems,the sea is a symbol of the male-dominated society or an individual man.While the little boat is the epitome of Dickinson:sometimes it wants to be strong-willed and clear of its destination,sometimes it just wants to moor in the sea and enjoy the calmness.The paper tends to reveal the psychological struggle of Emily Dickinson and show the whole image of her as an individual through the analysis of the images of boat and sea in Dickinson’s poems. 相似文献
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This paper centers on the unnamed woman sunbathing on the roof of her own ,using her indifference and silence as rebellion toward the three men’s provocation working on another roof, trying to explore women’s subversion toward the gender bias and their self-consciousness raising in the society. 相似文献
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《池州师专学报》1996,(1)
The Black self-consciousness is an eternal literay theme seriously treated in American Literature and Black Literature in particular,This paper gives a survey of the progress of Black self-consciousness in which Black Americans have neen struggling continously to earn their freedom and equality,and later to restore their own self-respect and confidence.The progressive self-consciousness is evidently demonstrated in this paper by comparative analysis of various Black figures,from the obedient and meek Ngro slaves represented by Uncle Tom to the rebellious and difi-ant characters portrayed by Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison,In reality,the promising generation involved in the Harlem Renaissance have taken some measures to search for their own identity in a highly organized and prejudiced society. 相似文献
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Invisible Man is a representative work of black literature in America.In this novel,the writer Ralph Ellison depicts the hero’s growth experience in the white dominated society with his unique narrative techniques.As an individual in a society,the hero in this novel gradually realizes that he is an invisible man in the white dominated society and he doesn’t have the social sta tus which can be recognized by the white at all.To change this situation,the hero in this novel suffers many difficulties and hard ships with an attempt to prove his existence in front of the white and the numerous black fellows and obtain his own identity as a black man which will be recognized by others.This paper tries to explore African American’s pursuit of identity in Invisible Man by interpreting Ellison’s Invisible Man. 相似文献
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Death is a common theme of literature and most of writers eulogize noble death to heaven and belittle some souls to heaven.Emily Dickinson,the great American poetess,wrote more than 600 poems about death and immortality with her unique ideas.The paper will analyze Emily Dickinson’s unusual belief about death from her poems and the influence of her growing environment on her. 相似文献
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孔蕊 《高等教育与学术研究》2006,(1)
Ⅰ. About Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most famous female writers in American literature. Cather puts the pioneer- ing spirits as a major subject matter in her works, while other American novelists glorify the heroic qual- ities of the pioneers. However, for Cather, heroism is not enough. She is interested in their determination to defend for the traditions as well as their willpower and endurance. She has quite a kind of perception on the American scene, and her useful memories… 相似文献