Differences and Similarities to the Slave Narrative in Sapphire’s "Push" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Differences and Similarities to the Slave Narrative in Sapphire’s "Push" write by Daria Poklad. This book was released on 2016-01-18. Differences and Similarities to the Slave Narrative in Sapphire’s "Push" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum, course: African American Novel, language: English, abstract: The research question of this essay is, to what extend can features of a slave narrative be incorporated into a contemporary novel as "Push" and which features have to be altered in order to reflect specific cultural realities. Sapphire’s first novel (1996) is told in the African American vernacular voice of obese and illiterate 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones who lives with her abusive mother in Harlem. The novel begins with Precious being pregnant with her second child by her father, who has been repeatedly raping her since childhood. After being expelled from high school due to her pregnancy, she is placed in an alternative school program where she learns to read and write with a group of other young women. As she becomes literate, her life begins to change. Of the several essays written on "Push" most authors have focused on topics such as race and social class, food consumption and obesity, disability and the female body, rape, incest and trauma as well as on the topic of transformation. Only Riché Richardson has established a relationship between "Push" and the slave narrative in his essay “Close Up: Push, Precious, and New Narratives of Slavery in Harlem” by showing recurring slave narrative motifs including “Precious’ detachment from her mother and father, her sexual and physical abuse, and her quest for literary and freedom” (163). In this essay, I will go a step further and not only focus on the similarities between "Push" and the slave narrative, but also discuss which impact the differences such as the replacement of the antebellum South into an urban setting and the replacement of slave holders into abusive and exploiting parents have on the narrative. I will begin the essay with a contextual chapter on the genre of slave narrative and its defining features. Then, I will focus on Sapphire’s "Push" and illustrate the differences to a slave narrative focusing on the urban setting of Harlem and the parents as tormentors. In a next step, I will discuss the similarities between "Push" and the slave narrative focusing on the themes of abuse and exploitation, as well as literacy, transformation and finally on escaping and being a free member of society.
"Can I Get a Witness!"
"Can I Get a Witness!" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Can I Get a Witness!" write by Teresa Ann Guinon. This book was released on 2004. "Can I Get a Witness!" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough
Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough write by Neal A. Lester. This book was released on 2012-12-05. Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.
The Poetics of Difference
The Poetics of Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetics of Difference write by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. This book was released on 2021-10-19. The Poetics of Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship. Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.
The African American Male, Writing, and Difference
The African American Male, Writing, and Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African American Male, Writing, and Difference write by W. Lawrence Hogue. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The African American Male, Writing, and Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this wide-ranging analysis, W. Lawrence Hogue argues that African American life and history is more diverse than even African American critics generally acknowledge. Focusing on literary representations of African American males in particular, Hogue examines works by James Weldon Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Charles Wright, Nathan Heard, Clarence Major, James Earl Hardy, and Don Belton to see how they portray middle-class, Christian, subaltern, voodoo, urban, jazz/blues, postmodern, and gay African American cultures. Hogue shows that this polycentric perspective can move beyond a "racial uplift" approach to African American literature and history and help paint a clearer picture of the rich diversity of African American life and culture.
