Literature
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Disentangling “Mammy”: Negating Identity in Kindred, Dessa Rose, and Family
There is a common thread between the protagonist’s in Kindred, Dessa Rose, and Family that demonstrates how African American female agency negotiates the antebellum role of “mammy.” In all three...
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Kevin as a Postmodern Literary Captive in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Continuity May it be so: Let the great vessel be lifted from the ground And the warm lips drink from it Until the tongue begins to speak, And spread its...
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Exercising Memory as Narrative Technique in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
In Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, exercising memory encapsulates the central narrative technique of the story. Storytelling itself parallels the novels focus point which seeks to memorialize the unacknowledged families of...
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Vyry’s Song: Remembering as an Uncontested Place
Memory, like imagination, is a place of elucidative trepidations, symmetry compressed to myrrh from bifocal consciousness, sediment and stoicism forgetting all but grace through the rushing richness of the flooding...