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

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40-41). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.

<p>This study focuses on how the heritage of slavery has affected the mothering of two mothers in Toni Morrison's novels <em>Sula </em>and <em>Beloved </em>and how this is portrayed in the novels. It has made a comparison between the mothers and many similarities are found in the lives of these women although they live in different time periods. The essay also elucidates aspects of power and powerlessness as well as the consequences of motherlove.</p>

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-02-03T13:30:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianademesquitasilva.pdf: 483570 bytes, checksum: eadf171a12f2f3909cf46427f52297d2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-06T15:46:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianademesquitasilva.pdf: 483570 bytes, checksum: eadf171a12f2f3909cf46427f52297d2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-06T15:46:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianademesquitasilva.pdf: 483570 bytes, checksum: eadf171a12f2f3909cf46427f52297d2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-06T15:46:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianademesquitasilva.pdf: 483570 bytes, checksum: eadf171a12f2f3909cf46427f52297d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-27 / Nesta dissertação, tivemos por objetivo comprovar o quanto questões abordadas por Toni Morrison no romance Paradise (1998), traduzido para o português com o título de Paraíso (1998), se aproximam daquelas discutidas no âmbito do pensamento crítico literário, cultural e tradutório contemporâneo. Nesse sentido, realizamos discussões sobre tradução, alegoria e história e as entrelaçamos ao pensamento de Walter Benjamin. Detivemo-nos também em considerações relativas à hospitalidade, ao estrangeiro e ao fanatismo e as confrontamos com reflexões feitas respectivamente por Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva e Amós Oz. Finalmente, focalizamos a noção de arquivo no contexto do romance em tela e a articulamos com percepções de Derrida sobre o assunto. / In this thesis we have aimed to prove the extension to which issues developed by Toni Morrison in the novel Paradise (1998), translated into Portuguese with the title of Paraíso (1998), approach the ones which are discussed in the field of literary, cultural and translation contemporary thought. Therefore, we have carried out discussions about translation, allegory and history, and intertwined them to Walter Benjamin’s thought. We have also dealt with considerations on hospitality, the foreigner and fanaticism, and confronted them with reflections developed by Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva and Amós Oz, respectively. Finally, we have focused on the notion of archive in the context of the present novel and articulated it with Derrida’s perceptions on the subject.

Le XXème siècle voit naître un nouveau type de récit romanesque : aux États-Unis, en Amérique latine et en France sont publiés de plus en plus de romans polyphoniques, structurés par les voix des personnages qui se relaient pour raconter l’histoire qu’ils partagent. Le narrateur omniscient disparaît au profit de la multiplication des voix et de la pénétration directe des intériorités. Notre étude isole neuf de ces romans polyphoniques, retenus en raison de leur statut paradigmatique et du dialogue qu’ils tissent entre eux. Tous sont modelés par de nouvelles conceptions de l’esprit humain qui accordent une place inédite à la subjectivité, et servis par des outils narratifs expérimentaux qui soulignent la préoccupation des romanciers de trouver une adéquation entre mots, sentiments et pensées. Ils permettent des jeux qui donnent à voir la constitution d’une théorie du roman comme puzzle et comme procès, tout en s’ouvrant génériquement à d’autres textes tels le théâtre et la poésie, ce qui interroge les capacités d’appropriation du genre romanesque. Mais la forme polyphonique de ces romans correspond surtout à des enjeux d’une importance capitale pour le monde contemporain qui les voit naître : en segmentant la narration et en la répartissant entre les personnages, le roman polyphonique soulève les questions du lien entre voix et idéologie et du rapport entre discours et réalité. En donnant à entendre une multiplicité de voix, il fait coexister sur la page les vivants et les morts, dépasse les limites de la condition humaine et redéfinit la notion de vérité. / The XXth century witnesses the appearance of a new type of novelistic narrative : in the U.S.A as well as in Latin America and in France, an increasing number of polyphonic novels are published, whose structure relies on the voices of characters who tell one after the other the story they have in common. The omniscient narrator is replaced by a multiplicity of voices and by direct penetration of consciousness. This thesis focuses on nine of these polyphonic novels, which were selected due to their paradigmatic status and because of the dialogue they build with one another. They all are inspired by new conceptions of the mind that place subjectivity at their center, and use experimental devices that underline the quest of the novelists seeking an equivalent between words, feelings and thoughts. These texts allow games that show how theories of the novel as a puzzle and as a trial are being moulded, while opening to other genres such as theatre and poetry and questioning the novel’s absorption capacity. But most of all, the polyphonic pattern appears as a crucial stake for the contemporary world that gave birth to these novels: the fragmentation of the narrative, now shared among characters, questions the link between voice and ideology and the relationship between speech and reality. The multiplicity of voices makes the living and the dead share the pages of the book and gives the novel a power that goes beyond the limits of human condition while offering a new definition of the concept of truth.

In this essay I discuss the notion of memory and its effect on the three main characters of the book &quot;Beloved&quot; by Toni Morrison and additionally how these characters through their individual relationships with a ghost (in the shape of a young woman) are assisted to move towards a healthier life where they can live in the present. The memories of these characters, Sethe, Denver and Paul D, all differ, but still not one of them has the ability to live in the present. For Paul D and Sethe the haunting memories are due to their days as slaves, and additionally for Sethe, the fact that she murdered one of her children. Denver however, is merely the victim of her mother?s memories, and is more or less imprisoned in a monotonous life. The young (ghost) woman, who relieves these characters from their pasts, is though to be the reincarnation of Sethe?s murdered child Beloved. With her arrival, Beloved forces the characters to move away from their stagnated lives through dealing with their memories of the past and simultaneously finding new knowledge about themselves.

The Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, has been historically known for containing a rich source of Late Jurassic vertebrate fossils. However, when collected, most of these fossils were not positioned into a stratigraphic or sedimentologic framework. Research shows that the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff can be divided into three members. These members can be identified by lithologic and paleontological characteristics. The lower Morrison members include the Windy Hill Member and the recently described Lake Como Member. The Windy Hill Member primarily contains near-shore marine sandstone. Megavertebrate fauna is lacking. The Lake Como Member contains illitic clay in red and green mottled paleosols with caliche and thin sandstone beds. The fauna typically consists oflarge saurian and ornithischian dinosaurs. The upper Morrison Formation includes the Talking Rocks Member. This member contains gray-green smectite-rich mudstones. The Talking Rocks Member is generally calcareous and appears to have a megavertebrate fauna similar to the Lower Morrison. The upper part of this member is typically non calcareous and the fauna is more aquatic with turtles, crocodiles, fish and smaller ornithischian dinosaurs, including some species thought to be restricted to the Cretaceous Period. The contact between the Morrison Formation and the overlying Cloverly Formation is placed at the base of the Cloverly conglomerates, which are present throughout the region. In some areas, this boundary coincides with the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary. However, in sections of the study area, a zone of kaolinitic carbonaceous shale with Cretaceous-like plant material can be found just below the Morrison/Cl overly contact. If this bed is Cretaceous in age, then the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff is in part Early Cretaceous and not restricted to the Late Jurassic.

This is an investigation into the ways that postmodern theories and feminist theories have both failed to learn from each other and yet also reveal the blindness' implicit in each other. Postmodern theory has consistently failed to engage gender in any significant way and feminist theory has consisted failed to find the usefulness of the methods and questions posed by postmodern theorists. Both approaches have failed to address the very real and important perspectives of the post colonial others who have been addressing the questions of race, gender, history, and agency for hundred of years. The second half of this investigation looks specifically at the work of three African American women writers, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor and Gayle Jones, in their most recent work. All three novels, Beloved, Mama Day and Corregidora are historical novels concerned with the legacy of slavery, and these narratives themselves exceed all the expectation for postmodern theory and feminist theory in inviting us to understand the relationship between history, memory and the now. In effect the work of these writers succeeds in "theorizing the present" in ways that both feminism and postmodernism fail.