Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Pearl Mchaney, Christopher Kocela, committee members. Electronic text (99 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-99).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-62).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-62). Also available in print.

Cette thèse met en avant une lecture ethno-anthropologique et ontologique de l’œuvre du designer anglais Jasper Morrison.Le parti pris de lier l’ethno-anthropologie (André Leroi-Gourhan) et l’ontologie (Martin Heidegger) à la production morrisonienne, en l’occurrence de meubles, d’objets, d’images et de textes, nous permet de faire émerger quelque chose d’inédit quant à cette figure majeure du design contemporain. En effet, outre le fait que cette thèse examine la tangibilité des liens entre l’esprit et la matière, entre l’homme, l’objet et la civilisation, elle montre aussi à quel point le designer est relié à son contexte d’existence, qu’il crée ou recrée ad infinitum à la façon du design. Ainsi, cette thèse de structure interprétative, met-elle au jour de manière démonstrative la mécanique morrisonienne, qui commence par un travail poético-expérimental conditionné par le désir d’un affranchissement du cadre typologique pour évoluer rapidement vers un respect manifeste de celui-ci. Habité par la question du home, ce « constructeur du nouveau monde » qu’est Morrison, c’est ce que cette thèse démontre, œuvre à travers un design que l’on pourrait qualifier “au-delà du visible” ou dont on pourrait dire qu’il a tendance à se fondre dans la panoplie des formes plutôt qu’à s’en détacher. En effet, le designer, charmé par les « artefacts sans artistes » tente de se rapprocher de ces productions anonymes cherchant à retraiter leur substance, rejouant par le design les ressentis thoreauviens à Walden. Enfin, ce que cette thèse aborde et c’est là encore un nouvel horizon qu’elle ouvre sur la lecture de l’œuvre de Jasper Morrison, c’est la question de l’atmosphère comme démarche et/ou étude prospective du designer dont la production renvoie à une forme de vigilance existentielle de l’homme et par voie de conséquence de l’objet dans le monde contemporain. / This research aims towards an ethno-anthropological and ontological reading of the work by the British designer Jasper Morrison.Linking an ethno-anthropological (André Leroi-Gourhan) and ontological perspective (Martin Heidegger) to Jasper Morrison’s production, that is furniture, objects, images and texts enables us to bring out something entirely new contributing in a significant way to our comprehension of this major figure of contemporary design. Not only does this thesis examine the tangibility of the ties between mind and material, between man, object and civilisation, but it also shows the extent to which the designer is connected to his context of existence, which he creates or recreates infinitely through design. In other words, this thesis, of interpretative structure, reveals the mechanics of Morrison’s practice, a practice which starts with a poetic-experimental approach, conditioned by the desire to liberate itself from the typological constraints, and evolves quickly towards an obvious respect of those very constraints. Morrison, this « new world constructor » who is obsessed by the concept of home, works towards a design which could be called “beyond visible” or, one which shows a tendency to blend into the panoply of shapes rather than detach itself from it. Indeed the designer, who is charmed by « artefacts without artists », attempts to get closer to these anonymous productions, trying to re-treat their substance and thus replaying Thoreauvian feelings in Walden. Finally, this thesis offers another new horizon towards the reading of Jasper Morrison’s production. It deals with the question of atmosphere as a line of approach and/or a prospective study by the designer whose production refers to a form of existential vigilance of man and consequently of the objet in our contemporary world.

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This thesis is a comparative analysis of the African American author Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved and the Native American writer Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine. The focus of this essay will be the theme motherhood. A feminist theoretical and critical approach are used throughout the thesis and focus is laid upon the third wave of feminism which: “borrows from post-structural and contemporary gender and race theories (…) to expand on marginalized populations’ experiences.” (Purdue OWL). In the novel Love Medicine the characters Marie and Lulu are examined. Both characters are strong independent women and through them the author challenges the Western-European image of motherhood, family and female characteristics. In the novel Beloved, the characters Sethe and Baby Suggs are studied with two focus points. The first is the impact that motherhood can have on the development of the self and how Morrison shows this through the character Sethe. The second focus point is the effects that come from slavery and mainly the effects that can come from the denial of motherhood. These novels manage to challenge the western norm of motherhood through different aspects and in different ways.

English Abstract Toni Morrison deals with the topic of community to a greater or lesser extent in all of her books. Being influenced by her own upbringing, she has always been aware of the role community plays in one's life and its influence on an individual. Community can both save you and forsake you. The nature of black community has been changing, according to Morrison, and so has her view of it. Her writing career reflects these alternations, revealing a significant change in her perspective. Looking at her first novel, The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, her third novel written seven years later, Song of Solomon, and her seventh novel, Paradise, written in 1998, this thesis traces the way her position alters throughout the years. Being opposed to both radical separatism and blind assimilation, Morrison first proposed return to traditional African values as the possible cure for the black community destroyed by the forces of capitalist society. Later in her career, however, Morrison changes her ideology and suggests as a remedy a community that does not exclude the unworthy, but is open, caring, and inclusive. By evolving from individualism to individuality, communities that will include everyone can be created.

This essay is a close reading of the novels Beloved by Toni Morrison and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou with the purpose of analyzing the impact and role of the African American community in two characters’ formation of self. The aim is to contrast and compare the two chosen characters’ experiences with their respective African American communities and discuss common ground, similarities and differences. A postcolonial approach is applied to the analysis by using concepts and theory from Fanon’s arguments on the psychological effects on the oppressed, Cohen’s description of diaspora communities and Bhabha’s notion of hybridization and culture.

Literary scholars have been examining and recreating the experiences of “bonded” female characters within Toni Morrison’s novels for decades. However, the distinct experiences of these enslaved women, that are also mothers have not been astutely examined by scholars and deserves more attention. My thesis fleshes out the characterization of several of Morrison’s bonded-mothers and identifies them as a part of a developing controlling image and theory, called the bondmother. Situating these characters within this category allows readers to trace their journeys towards freedom and personal redemption. This character tracing will occur by examining the following Toni Morrison novels: Beloved (1987) and Paradise (1997). In order to fully examine the experiences of these characters it will be necessary for me to expand the definition of bondage and mother. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection