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Breaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"
2017. urn:nbn:hr:142:193603
Periš, Lucija
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Periš, L. (2017). Breaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:193603

Periš, Lucija. "Breaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:193603

Periš, Lucija. "Breaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:193603

Periš, L. (2017). 'Breaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 26 December 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:193603

Periš L. Breaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2017 [cited 2024 December 26] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:193603

L. Periš, "Breaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2017. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:193603

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TitleBreaking the Taboo: Slavery and Dehumanization in Adaptations of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"
Title (croatian)Problematika robovlasništva u filmskim adaptacijama "Orkanskih visova" Emily Brontë
AuthorLucija Periš
MentorLjubica Matek (mentor)
Committee memberJadranka Zlomislić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberLjubica Matek (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberJasna Poljak Rehlicki (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2017-07-10, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper presents the analysis of the issue of slavery in William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights (1939), Peter Kosminsky’s Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1992), and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights (2011), with respect to the portrayal of the character of Heathcliff, a darkskinned, oppressed boy from Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights. The first part of the paper discusses the socio-political circumstances of Brontë’s time and the way they influenced the depiction of slavery in her novel, with a particular emphasis on the portrayal of Heathcliff. The main part of the paper explores the issue of slavery in the three adaptations of Brontë’s novel by analyzing Heathcliff’s background, social status, and his ability to climb the social ladder. The paper shows that the three adaptations considerably differ in their readiness to tackle the question of slavery, racial intolerance, and social injustice. The turbulent socio-political climate of Wyler’s time impelled him to remove the potentially controversial racist elements from his adaptation and make it a romance, while the time distance and the convenient historical moment allowed Kosminsky to reveal racial animosity and violence underlying Brontë’s novel in his adaptation. Likewise, the tendency of the twenty first century adaptations to address social injustice prompted Arnold to make her adaptation a social critique of white privilege. Paper reaches the conclusion that the readiness to depict social issues in adaptations depends on the suitability of the historical moment and the socio-political atmosphere; thereby contemporary adaptations explicitly address the issue of slavery, whereas the older ones avoid it.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:193603
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Philology
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)
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