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Tenerelli, Polyxeni.

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Hybridity, monstrosity, and women's voices in Black and Greek fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Hybridity, monstrosity, and women's voices in Black and Greek fiction./
Author:	Tenerelli, Polyxeni.
Description:	193 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0563.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3251321

Hybridity, monstrosity, and women's voices in Black and Greek fiction.
Tenerelli, Polyxeni.

Hybridity, monstrosity, and women's voices in Black and Greek fiction. - 193 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0563.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2007.

The thesis examines representations of hybridity in female central characters in Black and Greek literary texts. After a detailed consideration of recent theories of hybridity in literary studies, the thesis expands on the political, linguistic, and cosmological similarities between the African American and Modern Greek traditions, particularly the presence of the hybrid and the monster as morally ambivalent entities in the vernacular cultures. In the Western intellectual tradition, by contrast, the hybrid and the monster exist as categorically negative entities, and the designation of monstrosity has been applied historically to female hybrids, women who deviate from their social roles as carriers of biological or cultural meaning.Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Hybridity, monstrosity, and women's voices in Black and Greek fiction.
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520 $a The thesis examines representations of hybridity in female central characters in Black and Greek literary texts. After a detailed consideration of recent theories of hybridity in literary studies, the thesis expands on the political, linguistic, and cosmological similarities between the African American and Modern Greek traditions, particularly the presence of the hybrid and the monster as morally ambivalent entities in the vernacular cultures. In the Western intellectual tradition, by contrast, the hybrid and the monster exist as categorically negative entities, and the designation of monstrosity has been applied historically to female hybrids, women who deviate from their social roles as carriers of biological or cultural meaning.
520 $a Two Greek and two Black prose fiction works are discussed: Georgos Vizyenos' ''My Mother's Sin," Nella Larsen's Quicksand, Stratis Myrivilis' Mermaid Madonna, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The symbolic and referential associations of female hybridity with representations of monstrosity and the social anxieties over coupling and procreation that each author foregrounds constitute a site of inquiry into how the material aspects of existence and the material relations of modernity shape the possibilities for individual identity, creativity, and autonomy. The thesis concludes that the ambivalence that arises from the coincidence of representations of monstrosity with the expression of voice of female hybrid characters points not only to the texts" polyvocality, but also to the conservative aspects in both popular and official modes of expression that shape women's efforts at self-determination.
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