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  1. The Treatment of Racism in the African American Novel of Satire ; Die Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus im afroamerikanischen Satireroman
    Autor*in: Fett, Sebastian
    Erschienen: 2008

    As a target for condemnation, the thematic prevalence of racism in African American novels of satire is not surprising. In order to confront this vice in its shifting manifestations, however, the African American satirist has to employ special... mehr

     

    As a target for condemnation, the thematic prevalence of racism in African American novels of satire is not surprising. In order to confront this vice in its shifting manifestations, however, the African American satirist has to employ special techniques. This thesis examines some of these devices as they occur in George Schuyler- Black No More, Charles Wright- The Wig, and Percival Everett- Erasure. Given the reciprocity of target and technique in the satiric context, close attention is paid to how the authors under study locate and interrogate racism in their narratives. In this respect, the significance of anti-essentialist Marxist criticism in Schuyler- Black No More and the author- portrayal of the society of his time as capitalist machinery is examined. While Schuyler is concerned with exposing the general socioeconomic workings of the 1920s from a Marxist perspective, Wright offers the reader perspective into how this oppressive machinery psychologically manipulates and corrupts the individual in the historic context of Lyndon B. Johnson- political vision of the Great Society. Everett then elaborates on the epistemological concern which is traceable in Wright- work and addresses the role media representation plays in manufacturing images and rigid categories that shape systematic racism. As such, the present study not only highlights the versatility of satire as a rhetorical secret weapon and thus ventures toward the idiosyncrasies of the African American novel of satire, it also makes an effort to trace the ever-changing face of racial discrimination. ; Angesichts andauernder Ungleichberechtigung verwundert es kaum, dass Rassismus und Diskriminierung häufig ins Visier afroamerikanischer Satire geraten. Nimmt sich Satire dieses Themenkomplexes an, ergibt sich zwangsläufig ein vielschichtiger literarischer Gegenstand, hat doch die Form der Satire ebenso viele Gesichter wie das gesellschaftliche Phänomen des Rassismus. Mit Blick auf afroamerikanische Satiriker stellt sich die Frage, welche satirischen ...

     
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    Medientyp: Dissertation
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    DDC Klassifikation: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810)
    Schlagworte: USA; Satirischer Roman; Schwarze; Rassismus; Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch
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  2. Vernacular Traditions: The Use of Music in the Novels of Toni Morrison
    Autor*in: Spies, Christine
    Erschienen: 2004

    Music features prominently on different levels in the novels of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, whose aim is to provide her works with an aural quality. My dissertation is divided into three main parts: The first part examines how the author... mehr

     

    Music features prominently on different levels in the novels of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, whose aim is to provide her works with an aural quality. My dissertation is divided into three main parts: The first part examines how the author incorporates a great number of characters as musical performers or listeners into her novels,where music frequently serves to comment on the action or the characters and at times even to undermine them. The focus of the second part is on the transfer of musical properties to the texts concerning both structure and content by including devices such as antiphony, rhythm or improvisation as well as by adapting elements of the plot to the lyrics of well-known spirituals or blues songs. Morrison thereby further aligns her novels with her African American heritage. In the third part, the combination of music and such fundamental African American vernacular traditions as storytelling, testifying and signifying are scrutinised. Morrison artfully proves to be a modern griot who is able to both continue in the tradition of her heritage and to give her words an authentic African American voice. ; Die Nobelpreisträgerin Toni Morrison, die ihren Romanen eine dezidiert auditive Qualität verleihen möchte, rekurriert in ihren Werken auf die Verwendung von Musik und Elementen des afroamerikanischen Vernakularen innerhalb verschiedener narrativer Ebenen. Meine Dissertation gliedert sich in folgende drei Haupt-teile: Zunächst wird die Darstellung einiger Charaktere als Musizierende oder Zuhörer thematisiert, die meist als Kommentar bezüglich der Handlung oder der Charaktere dient bzw. diese bisweilen auch unterminiert. Der Schwerpunkt des zweiten Teils liegt auf der Übertragung musikalischer Eigenschaften auf die Texte, die auf struktureller Ebene von musikalischen Mitteln wie Antiphonie, Rhythmus oder Improvisation Gebrauch machen und sich auch inhaltlich an Texte bekannter Spirituals oder Bluessongs anlehnen. Durch diese Kombination bindet Morrison ihre Romane enger an ihre afroamerikanischen ...

     
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    DDC Klassifikation: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810)
    Schlagworte: Morrison; Toni; Blues; Jazz; USA / Literatur / Schwarze; Gospelsong; Trickster; Intertextualität; Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch
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  3. No Longer Printing the Legend: The Aporia of Heteronormativity in the American Western (1903-1969)
    Autor*in: Schank, Tobias
    Erschienen: 2023

    This study critically investigates the U.S.-American Western and its construction of sexuality and gender, revealing that the heteronormative matrix that is upheld and defended in the genre is consistently preceded by the exploration of alternative... mehr

     

    This study critically investigates the U.S.-American Western and its construction of sexuality and gender, revealing that the heteronormative matrix that is upheld and defended in the genre is consistently preceded by the exploration of alternative sexualities and ways to think gender beyond the binary. The endeavor to naturalize heterosexuality seems to be baked in the formula of the U.S.-Western. However, as I show in this study, this endeavor relies on an aporia, because the U.S.-Western can only ever attempt to naturalize gender by constructing it first, hence inevitably and simultaneously construct evidence that supports the opposite: the unnaturalness and contingency of gender and sexuality. My study relies on the works of Raewyn Connell, Pierre Bourdieu, and Judith Butler, and amalgamates in its methodology established approaches from film and literary studies (i.e., close readings) with a Foucaultian understanding of discourse and discourse analysis, which allows me to relate individual texts to cultural, socio-political and economical contexts that invariably informed the production and reception of any filmic text. In an analysis of 14 U.S.-Westerns (excluding three excursions) that appeared between 1903 and 1969 I give ample and minute narrative and film-aesthetical evidence to reveal the complex and contradictory construction of gender and sexuality in the U.S.-Western, aiming to reveal both the normative power of those categories and its structural instability and inconsistency. This study proofs that the Western up until 1969 did not find a stable pattern to represent the gender binary. The U.S.-Western is not necessarily always looking to confirm or stabilize governing constructs of (gendered) power. However, it without fail explores and negotiates its legitimacy. Heterosexuality and male hegemony are never natural, self-evident, incontestable, or preordained. Quite conversely: the U.S.-Western repeatedly – and in a surprisingly diverse and versatile way – reveals the illogical constructedness of ...

     
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  4. Difference and Identity in Contemporary Anglo-Canadian Fiction ; Differenz und Identität in zeitgenössischer anglo-kanadischer Literatur
    Autor*in: Genetsch, Martin
    Erschienen: 2004

    My dissertation is concerned with contemporary (Anglo-)Canadian immigrant fiction and proposes an analytic grid with which it may be appreciated and compared more adequately. As a starting-point serves the general observation that the works of many... mehr

     

    My dissertation is concerned with contemporary (Anglo-)Canadian immigrant fiction and proposes an analytic grid with which it may be appreciated and compared more adequately. As a starting-point serves the general observation that the works of many Canadian immigrant writers are characterised by a focus on their respective home cultures as well as on their Canadian host culture. Following the ground-breaking work of Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood and David Staines, the categories of "there" and "here" are suggested in order to reflect this double encoding of Canadian immigrant literature. However, "here" and "there" are more than spatial configurations in that they represent a concern with issues of multiculturalism and postcolonialism. Both of which are informed by an emphasis on difference and identity, and difference and identity are also what the narratives of M.G. Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry are preoccupied with. My study sets out to show two things: On the one hand, it attempts to exemplify the complexity and interrelatedness of "there" and "here" in a representative fashion. Hence in their treatments of difference, M.G. Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry come up with comparable identity constructions "here" and "there" respectively. On the other hand, special attention is paid to the strategies by which Vassanji, Bissoondath and Mistry construct difference and corroborate their respective understandings of identity.

     
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    DDC Klassifikation: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810)
    Schlagworte: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch
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  5. Negotiations of Race and Gender in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'
    Autor*in: Kerpen, Beate
    Erschienen: 2016

    1.The Discursive Construction of Black Masculinity: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality 1.1.The Plight of Black Men: A History of Lynchings and Castrations 1.2.The Discursive Construction of the Black Man as Otherrn 1.3.Black Corporeality... mehr

     

    1.The Discursive Construction of Black Masculinity: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality 1.1.The Plight of Black Men: A History of Lynchings and Castrations 1.2.The Discursive Construction of the Black Man as Otherrn 1.3.Black Corporeality and the Scopic Regime of Racism 2. Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible man' 2.1.Invisible Black Men: Between Emasculation and Hypermasculinityrn 2.2.Transcending Invisibility ; Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Konstruktion schwarzer Männlichkeit in Ralph Ellison- Roman Invisible Man (1952). Wie sein Titel bereits andeutet, behandelt der Roman die problematische Sichtbarkeit schwarzer Männer in der von Rassismus und Segregation geprägten Gesellschaft der Vereinigten Staaten vor der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, in welcher "der Neger" einerseits einen Zustand politischer und ökonomischer Unsichtbarkeit fristet, während er andererseits in der kollektiven Wahrnehmung als Stereotyp, etwa als brutaler Vergewaltiger, unterwürfiger Onkel Tom, oder als komischer Belustiger, übermäßig sichtbar ist " was erneut dazu führt, dass sein Wesen und seine Individualität unsichtbar bleiben. Der erste Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit erörtert, wie westliche Diskurse seit der Aufklärung essentialistische Vorstellungen von Rasse und Geschlecht strategisch miteinander verquickt haben, um den schwarzen Mann in den europäischen und amerikanischen Machthierarchien auf einen Platz der Dominierung und Abhängigkeit zu verweisen. Weiterhin ist das Bestreben nach Herrschaft eng verknüpft mit Zuschreibungsmechanismen, durch welche die dominante Ordnung "das Andere" zur Projektionsfläche ihrer eigenen verborgenen Ängste und Phantasien im Bezug auf Rasse, Geschlecht und Sexualität macht, wie es unter Anderem der Mythos des schwarzen Vergewaltigers sowie die daraus resultierende ambivalente Doppelrolle des schwarzen Mannes als "hypersexuell" und gelyncht/kastriert belegt. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit untersucht Ralph Ellison- Umgang mit den tradierten Wahrnehmungen und Modellen schwarzer Männlichkeit. Durch die ...

     
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    DDC Klassifikation: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810)
    Schlagworte: Rasse; Geschlecht; Sexualität; Rassenmischung; Vergewaltigung; Bürgerrechtsbewegung; Männlichkeit; Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch
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  6. Writing (Against) Postmodernism: The Urban Experience in Contemporary North American Fiction
    Autor*in: Schowalter, Lutz
    Erschienen: 2016

    Writing (Against) Postmodernism: The Urban Experience in Contemporary North American Fiction- presents three main arguments. The first is that even though the term postmodernism has come under attack for being too imprecise and for being... mehr

     

    Writing (Against) Postmodernism: The Urban Experience in Contemporary North American Fiction- presents three main arguments. The first is that even though the term postmodernism has come under attack for being too imprecise and for being philosophically unsound, postmodern theoretical positions regarding the loss of human agency and of rationality and the difficulty to communicate in a meaningful manner can arguably describe a contemporary zeitgeist amongst the urban middle and upper classes of North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. As Writing (Against) Postmodernism shows, the lives of characters in the texts under consideration "- The Savage Girl- (Alex Shakar, 2001),- Look At Me- (Jennifer Egan, 2001),- Noise- (Russell Smith, 1998),- Glamorama- (Bret Easton Ellis, 1998),- Ditch (Hal Niedzviecki, 2001),- Manhattan Loverboy, and- Suicide Casanova- (Arthur Nersesian, 2000, 2002) " correspond to theoretical positions advocated by contemporary theorists such as Frederic Jameson, Paul de Man, Jean Baudrillard, or Jacques Derrida. While focusing on literary production around the turn of the millennium,- Writing (Against) Postmodernism- also engages in theoretical debates, pointing out weaknesses in much postmodern theorizing and in appropriations of theoretical positions by literary scholars. The theoretical trajectory of the study is an argument in favour of modestly realist modes of writing, and it suggests not to discard easily "that extra edge of consciousness" (Raymond Williams) which might still make it possible for human beings to remain rational agents. In a further step, the present study explains how the urban novels mentioned above all express a disdain towards the postmodern lives they describe. What is more, the texts and their characters search for ways out of the postmodern impasses they initially present as realities, and they actively (try to) overcome them. In thus moving away from postmodern theoretical positions and their practical consequences, the books can be said to be part of a ...

     
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    DDC Klassifikation: Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch (810)
    Schlagworte: Postmoderne; Literatur; Jahrtausendwende; Nordamerika; Amerikanische Literatur in in Englisch
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