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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Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50368 |
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. |
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