“Home is Nowehere”: Negotiating Identities in Colonized WorldsPosted in Dissertations, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Women on 2011-10-02 01:23Z by Steven |
“Home is Nowehere”: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds
University of Georgia
2007
57 pages
Julia A. Tigner
A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS
The Bildungsroman, a term that derived from German literary criticism, is a genre of literature that highlights popular conceptions of manhood and depicts the growth of the male protagonist. Many female authors use the Bildungsroman as a form of cultural expression not only to transform patriarchal views, but also to redefine femininity, articulate cultural conflict, and describe what it means to be a woman in a colonized culture. I will revisit this topic in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng (1984) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003), and examine family dynamics in order to show how each female protagonist negotiates the complexities of a hybrid identity and attempts to harmonize two opposite cultures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTERS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. “BETWEEN AFRICANNESS AND EUROPEANNESS: FORGING IDENTITIES IN MICHELLE CLIFF’S ABENG”
- 3. “TRADITION OR MODERNITY IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS”
- 4. CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Read the entire thesis here.