Pauline Hopkins`s Of One Blood Or, the Hidden Self was published in the Colored American Magazine during 1902-03 As a literary experimentalist and a political protester, Hopkins uses her fiction as a medium to overcome and ameliorate the violently racialized surroundings of the turn-of-the-century America Having been faced with racist rhetorics and theories growing on..
This essay examines Fredric Jameson`s argument of Third-World literatures as national allegories by investigating Salman Rushdie`s novel Midnight`s Children, which has often been interpreted as an allegory of national history of post-colonial India As the Indian Subaltern Studies Group`s example indicates perfectly, in the era of post-colonialism, narrations of ..
Since the world economy has been operating based upon the principal operative rule of globalization, the university especially in the advanced countries has rapidly become a transnational corporation More specifically, in the consumerist culture of globalization, values such as global competitiveness and efficiency are highly advocated and the importance role of the nati..
A large proportion of existing academic scholarship on Margaret Atwood focuses on the prevalence of violence, death and existential isolation in her work Although some Atwood scholars have acknowledged the more optimistic aspects of her work, many have read her recurring focus upon death and human suffering as signs of a prevailing nihilism and negativity In Power Politics..
A predicate occurring with a plural carries a D operator to distribute a predicate reading for each plural denotation The application of the D operator results in a maximal reading in that for every individual in the plural denotation, the predicate is asserted Maximality is not true for sentences with all Hence, this study shows when sentences with plurals have non-maximal..
The critical discourse surrounding Samuel Richardson`s Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady has pursued questions that examine what virtue means and, further, who defines virtue, how, and why This paper questions whether the novel, Clarissa, can support a model of virtue for both the novel and its heroine If the novel does not allow for multiple interpretations of virt..
Juxtaposing historical and autobiographical facts and incorporating Haitian myths, oral traditions, folklores, cultural practices, diasporic experiences, and displacement, in Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Edwidge Danticat describes the growth and development of a daughter of color in America in relation to the life and death of a traumatized mother of color who goes thr..
This paper aims to elucidate The Sign of Four as a text of urban spectatorship, placing it in the continuum of the nineteenth-century literature of urban exploration and considering the ways in which it reproduces, sustains and consolidates the key features of this particular literary genre In tandem with the dominant rhetoric of contemporary urban writing, The Sign of Fou..