Blar i forfatter Mastergradsoppgaver i litteratur "Jensen, Nanna"
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"No funk" - shame, violence and the black body: An investigation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child
Jensen, Nanna (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-16)This thesis will provide an analysis of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) and God Help the Child (2015) in light of historical context and gothic literary tropes, with the main focus on shame and the black body, violence and the inheritance of shame in families. I will show how an intertextual gothic reading of characters highlights the structural problems of racism in the shadow of slavery and ...