Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and EliotOhio State University Press, 1999 - 219 pages |
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... heroism toward a vaguely exceptional slave like Jim , who becomes a conve- nient site for muted questions about the limits of that heroism . Morrison's novel focuses instead on the runaway slave , her fam- ily , and her community and ...
... heroism toward a vaguely exceptional slave like Jim , who becomes a conve- nient site for muted questions about the limits of that heroism . Morrison's novel focuses instead on the runaway slave , her fam- ily , and her community and ...
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... heroism alongside the helplessness it denies , and the helplessness along- side the heroism it disavows . The story Denver remembers her mother telling her casts Denver as an " antelope " ramming and pawing in Sethe's womb , protesting ...
... heroism alongside the helplessness it denies , and the helplessness along- side the heroism it disavows . The story Denver remembers her mother telling her casts Denver as an " antelope " ramming and pawing in Sethe's womb , protesting ...
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... heroism , and partly because Huck's decision against his own antebellum southern society's conventions on slavery actually matches the social conventions of Twain's readers after the end of American slavery and Reconstruction . But ...
... heroism , and partly because Huck's decision against his own antebellum southern society's conventions on slavery actually matches the social conventions of Twain's readers after the end of American slavery and Reconstruction . But ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER I | 63 |
Learning from Invisibility and Blindness | 100 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
aesthetic African American culture African American literature American literature American romance Amy's articulate attempt attention Beloved canonical challenge characters critical cultural power democracy Denver difference discourse dominant culture Eliot's note Eliot's poem Ellison's novel escape European American example experience Faulkner's fear feel focus freedom gender heroism Huck and Jim Huck's Huckleberry Finn ideals identity imagine interaction ironic irony jazz Jim's story language less loss middle class modern modernist moral Morrison's novel mother multiculturalism narrator negative freedom negotiation Norton's pathos and dignity perhaps poem's political position positive freedom possible potential promise protagonist questions raft Ralph Ellison readers reading recognize relationship remade represented responsibility rhetorical seems sense Sethe Sethe's Shadow and Act slave social society stanza suggests T. S. Eliot tions Tiresias Tom's tradition transference transforming Trueblood ture Twain's novel unspeakable vision Waste Land Wheatstraw white supremacy writing
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