The forging of a plural selfhood.

This is a paper on the constituition of selfhood among African-American women, with reference to Alice Walker's The Colour Purple and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. These women overcame all adversities and established their identities via their communities, familie...

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Main Author: Tan, Yan Fang.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50368
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Summary:This is a paper on the constituition of selfhood among African-American women, with reference to Alice Walker's The Colour Purple and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. These women overcame all adversities and established their identities via their communities, families, and the search of their rights to speech and expression of selves.