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Fraser, Denia M.

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Surviving domestic tensions: Existential uncertainty in New World African diasporic women's literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Surviving domestic tensions: Existential uncertainty in New World African diasporic women's literature./
Author:	Fraser, Denia M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2013,
Description:	150 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-07A(E).
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3556248
ISBN:	9781267980953

Surviving domestic tensions: Existential uncertainty in New World African diasporic women's literature.
Fraser, Denia M.

Surviving domestic tensions: Existential uncertainty in New World African diasporic women's literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2013 - 150 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013.

This dissertation pinpoints imaginative patterns that people within the diaspora have used and now use to navigate highly untenable domestic circumstances. In focusing on this aspect of psychological survival, we can trace domestic behaviors back to existential questions that trouble individuals in the New World African Diaspora: questions of self-knowledge amidst internalized racism, questions that seek to realign one's history and future after migration, questions about the colonial and personal mother. These types of questions which frame my examination of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Loida Maritza Perez's Geographies of Home and Andrea Levy's Small Island, direct us toward psychic and physical tensions that preoccupy Black Women writers and their characters.

ISBN: 9781267980953Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.

Surviving domestic tensions: Existential uncertainty in New World African diasporic women's literature.
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520 $a In the second chapter of this dissertation, my textual analysis of The Bluest Eye engages with how Morrison orders an existential logic of a young girl's development through her experience with private violation and public racial violence. In the third chapter, I argue that Loida Maritza Perez's Geographies of Home is an examination of the psychologies of a mother and her daughters, as revealed by the omniscient narrator, which discloses the complex interplay of illusion/reality, inward turn/outward turn, belief/unbelief which characterizes the immigrant's uncertain survival. In my fourth chapter, Andrea Levy's Small Island, two Jamaicans, Hortense and Gilbert grow up in early twentieth century, colonial Jamaica and later immigrate to WWII England. Through these two characters, Levy demonstrates how the dynamic of the existential uncertainty inherent in the colonial relationship consistently holds in tension two important concepts: help and humiliation.
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