Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2001. / Available in film copy from University Microfilms International. Vita. Thesis advisor: Lewis R. Gordon. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-266). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Geological Sciences, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 239-246). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).

Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Bonn.

This dissertation examines the imaginative ways in which three postcolonial writers overcome a fractured collective past by creating a double-voiced discourse narrative framework that allows them to envision a reality that might-have-been while acknowledging the presence of dominant discourses that are. Morrison, Condé, and Farah overlap contradictory forms in order to show that narrative boundaries are self-imposed, mythical, and arbitrary. Intersection among these differing narratives in each text creates dialogism--a balance between dominant and counter-discourse. Because the contrasting viewpoints of dominant and counter-discourse both have a historical perspective, Morrison, Condé, and Farah work to retain a delicate intertextual fabric in their novels--a fabric woven from several narratives to create a text that rests paradoxically on the task of revealing the narrative contradictions while also showing that they can't be completely separated from each other as the singular hegemonic voice argues.

Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye from 1970, shows how the upbringing and society's norms can affect a young girl in an African-American society, where racism and a feeling of inferiority is the standards. Pecola's wishes for blue eyes since that may make her part of a world where she has never belonged. Her wish is not only a futile attempt to be looking differently but also a wish for a better life.

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A North Carolina Presbyterian minister and founder of Davidson College, Robert Hall Morrison was also a slave owner and father-in-law to three Confederate generals; yet he opposed slavery and often spouted anti-secessionist rhetoric. He preferred living in the Northern states. However, at the time of North Carolina's secession, he opted to stay in the South. Morrison expressed sentiments in letters written to family and close friends that together reveal no less than a paradoxical man. This thesis attempts to explore the contradictions expressed by Morrison in a series of letters, written primarily to a cousin and fellow Presbyterian minister, James Morrison, in the four decades leading to the Civil War. The letters unveil the contradictions that shaped Morrison and his views on slavery, secession and his society. In so doing, the thesis intends to flesh out an historic figure in North Carolina education and southern religion, and provide insights into various and similar contradictions and social issues in the antebellum South through the case study of one man. It examines paths he selected, and reveals Morrison as a fallible man who made strides in the name of education while questioning the inherently southern institution of evangelical religion. / Master of Arts

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação- Dráulio Carvalho Assis - 2015.pdf: 1556498 bytes, checksum: 98cc49a2be356c4b243600a891407196 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-28 / This dissertation seeks to reveal through the poetry of James Douglas Morrison, best known for becoming a myth as lead singer of the American band The Doors in the sixties, the dilemma of its historic man of conflicts and man mythological in his tragic search cross to the other side, so, a different view of the hegemonic vision of society, a reconciliation as historical subject. Bring to light some thinkers who reflect on time, memory, myth, tragic and poetry that we have to tell us to outline as man sees the flow or interiority that time in your consciousness. Jim Morrison's poetry becomes a revelation that moment in which consciousness sees the flow of time in its interiority and shows continuity in anguish and identities. The revelation of a transcendent term becomes an illumination which aims to immanence, that is, the eternal now and what it can reveal itself in its duration. The historical reality is loaded and then builds images with mythological content profiling dreamily walking and the progress of actions, therefore, poetry imbued with allegorical images the capture and visualize, breaking standards and implementing utopian conceptions, opening doors and can outline a new ethos. Within this allegorical conception to Walter Benjamin, the historian has hidden the awakening of gift of the past with the now knowledgeability in an immediate correspondence with the redemption of history. According to Marcelo Marques myth acts ethically in human existence by its poetic force, the human making it possible thus demystify Jim Morrison in his poetry that reveals his anguish, show a more human face who sought redemption through poetry. Understanding this search on your "moment of now" at this intersection and past his poetic recall the world is opening doors to redemption of history, as glimpsed like lightning in the dark night the connection of past and present experiences in the eternal now. In his tragic poetry Jim Morrison reveals their looks, conflicts, unreasonable and his misfortune that are contemporary, as in Baudelaire, Rimbaud and other artists, with the gift of modern society. Poetry as crossing times becomes the wild eye and the tragic awareness that awakens the instant of now, allowing the redemption of continuity identities and anguish in the heart of the story. / Essa dissertação busca revelar através da poesia de James Douglas Morrison, mais conhecido por ter se tornado um mito como vocalista da banda norte-americana The Doors na década de sessenta, o dilema de seus conflitos de homem histórico e homem mitológico em sua busca trágica de atravessar para outro lado, ou seja, uma visão diferenciada da visão hegemônica da sociedade, em uma reconciliação como sujeito histórico. Trazemos à tona um pouco dos pensadores que refletem sobre o tempo, memória, mito, trágico e poesia. O que têm a nos dizer para delinearmos como o homem encara o fluxo ou interioridade desse tempo em sua consciência. A poesia de Jim Morrison se torna uma revelação desse instante em que a consciência encara o fluxo do tempo em sua interioridade e mostra sua continuidade em angustias e identidades. A revelação de um termo de transcendência passa a ser uma iluminação que se propõe à imanência, ou seja, ao eterno agora e o que ele em si pode nos revelar em sua duração. A realidade histórica se carrega e se constrói então de imagens com teor mitológico que perfilam oniricamente o caminhar e o desenrolar das ações, portanto a poesia imbuída de imagens alegóricas as capturam e as visualizam, quebrando padrões e implantando concepções utópicas, abrindo portas, podendo delinear um novo ethos. Dentro dessa concepção alegórica, para Walter Benjamim, o historiador tem o dom de despertar o escondido do passado com o agora da cognoscibilidade em uma correspondência imediata com a redenção da história. De acordo com Marcelo Marques o mito atua eticamente na existência humana pela sua força poética, tornando possível o humano, assim desmitificar Jim Morrison em sua poesia que revela suas angustias mostrando um rosto mais humano que buscou sua redenção através da poesia. Compreender essa busca em seu “instante do agora”, no cruzamento do presente e passado em sua rememorização poética do mundo é abrir portas para redenção da história, pois vislumbrou como relâmpago na noite escura a ligação de vivências do passado e do presente no eterno agora. Em sua poesia trágica, Jim Morrison revela seus olhares, conflitos, desmedidas e seu infortúnio que são contemporâneos, como em Baudelaire, Rimbaud e outros artistas, com o presente da sociedade moderna. A poesia como cruzamento de tempos torna-se o olho selvagem e a consciência trágica que desperta no instante do agora, possibilitando a redenção da continuidade de identidades e da angustia no coração da história.