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Kelly, Sheila C.

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Representing resistance: Women's novels of the Americas and human rights (Toni Morrison, Rosario Castellanos, Mexico, Joy Kogawa, Paule Marshall, Barbados).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Representing resistance: Women's novels of the Americas and human rights (Toni Morrison, Rosario Castellanos, Mexico, Joy Kogawa, Paule Marshall, Barbados)./
Author:	Kelly, Sheila C.
Description:	323 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0892.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-03A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3085088

Representing resistance: Women's novels of the Americas and human rights (Toni Morrison, Rosario Castellanos, Mexico, Joy Kogawa, Paule Marshall, Barbados).
Kelly, Sheila C.

Representing resistance: Women's novels of the Americas and human rights (Toni Morrison, Rosario Castellanos, Mexico, Joy Kogawa, Paule Marshall, Barbados). - 323 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0892.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Loyola University of Chicago, 2003.

This dissertation examines the ways in which women's novels of the Americas represent the effects of human rights violations in their work and thereby enter into salient debates within the field of human rights, particularly the debate regarding individual versus group rights. The introduction outlines human rights theory and positions this study of resistance literature at the nexus between postcolonial, feminist, and human rights theory. In Chapter One, I suggest that human rights theory, based as it is in western humanism, conflicts with poststructuralist theory that holds that the individual subject is constructed by language, history, and environment. This chapter treats Toni Morrison's Beloved to suggest a version of the subject that is imaginative, narrating, and communal---one that is not antithetical to poststructuralism but is nevertheless capable of providing a basis for universal human rights. Chapter Two, on Mexican Rosario Castellanos's The Nine Guardians, and The Book of Lamentations, shows how Castellanos links the subjection of Mexican women of all classes and races to the oppression of the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Indians in the region of Chiapas in the 1930s. Castellanos emphasizes the importance of Indian group rights to cultural identity against the impinging individualism of a dominant Mexican culture and forced assimilation as she portrays the complexities of native resistance. Chapter Three, on Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ituska, investigates the plight of the Japanese-Canadians interned during World War II who were subsequently excluded from the nation and full-fledged citizenship. Kogawa vivifies strategies for a feminist theory of nationalism set forth by Anne McClintock as her main character attains subjectivity through community activism for human rights and redress for Japanese Canadians. Chapter Four treats Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, in which a community of the fictional Caribbean Bourne Island are represented as victims of colonialism, and neo-colonial globalization. Marshall's novel at once demystifies the idea of development to show that personal and communal development are central to successful economic development and mythifies local African Caribbean history to demonstrate the importance of such myths to communal activism and human rights goals.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Representing resistance: Women's novels of the Americas and human rights (Toni Morrison, Rosario Castellanos, Mexico, Joy Kogawa, Paule Marshall, Barbados).
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