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The African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature
2021. urn:nbn:hr:142:476158
Ćavar, Tomislava
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Ćavar, T. (2021). The African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:476158

Ćavar, Tomislava. "The African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:476158

Ćavar, Tomislava. "The African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:476158

Ćavar, T. (2021). 'The African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 24 January 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:476158

Ćavar T. The African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2021 [cited 2025 January 24] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:476158

T. Ćavar, "The African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2021. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:476158

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TitleThe African American Women's Search for Identity in Southern Literature
Title (croatian)Afroamerikanke i potraga za identitetom u južnjačkoj književnosti
AuthorTomislava Ćavar
MentorBiljana Oklopčić (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2021-08-24, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
The identity of African American women presents a specific intersection between race and gender, vulnerability and perseverance. This paper follows its development through Southern literature – how it was nearly decimated during slavery, built from ground up after its abolition, and how it continues to change and develop through many challenges and adversities up to the present day. It focuses on the depiction of female African American characters in five works of Southern literature: Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, “Long Black Song” from Richard Wright’s short story collection Uncle Tom’s Children, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, and Jesmyn Ward’s memoir Men We Reaped. By exploring different depictions of African American women, written from a variety of perspectives both gender and race-wise, this paper takes a closer look on how the outside influences have shaped the literary depictions of African American women, but also on how those women have reacted and reshaped those images. Conclusively, it points out how the subjugation of African American women was crucial to the upholding of the white patriarchy of the Southern United States.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:476158
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Sociology (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni prvostupnik/ prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) sociologije (sveučilišni prvostupnik/ prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) sociologije)
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