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"Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives
Tajana Šestak (2019)
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature
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Šestak, T. (2019). "Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:106665

Šestak, Tajana. ""Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:106665

Šestak, Tajana. ""Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:106665

Šestak, T. (2019). '"Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 22 November 2019, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:106665

Šestak T. "Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2019 [cited 2019 November 22] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:106665

T. Šestak, ""Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2019. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:106665

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Title"Up From the Past that's Rooted in Pain I rise:" Contemporary African-American Women Narratives
Title (croatian)"Uzdižem se iz prošlosti utemeljene u boli:" suvremeno Afroameričko žensko pismo
AuthorTajana Šestak
MentorJasna Poljak Rehlicki (mentor)
Committee memberBiljana Oklopčić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberJasna Poljak Rehlicki (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberSanja Runtić (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2019-09-27, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
Throughout the history and development of literature, many people have been writing about human rights in various shapes and forms. Probably the most researched and discussed are African-American and women rights, especially in the U.S. The main point of this thesis is to portray the hardships of African-American women by presenting their sides of the stories. That will be done by comparing four different pieces of literature/art: a speech ˝Ain´t I A Woman?˝, a poem ˝Still I Rise˝, a novel The Help, and a movie Hidden Figures. The authors of these works are very political in their trying to present their characters as subordinated in two ways: as being women and as being members of African-American community. The aim is to showcase the inequality that African-American women had to face each day due to both their race and gender throughout the past century in American society, starting from Sojourner Truth´s speech and ending with the very recent product of 21st century cinematography.
Keywords
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:106665
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Croatian Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Research Studies
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
Type of resourceText
File originBorn digital
Access conditionsOpen access
Terms of usehttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Created on2019-10-31 08:09:41