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11	Race, Space, and Narrative: Spatial Reading and Racial Literacy in Contemporary Multifocal American Novels Erika Gotfredson (16558647) 18 July 2023 (has links) <p>This dissertation identifies four American novels published between 2016 and 2018—Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> (2016), Jesmyn Ward’s <em>Sing, Unburied, Sing</em> (2017), Celeste Ng’s <em>Little Fires Everywhere</em> (2017), and Tommy Orange’s <em>There There</em> (2018)—that deploy a multifocal narrative structure to facilitate readers’ ethical engagement with their content. Specifically, these novels’ narrative structures guide readers through spatial reading, or reading across numerous characters’ perspectives of a shared space instead of with the grain of chronological time. Contextualizing these novels within the nation’s shifting racial beliefs initiated by the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the election of Donald Trump in 2016, I argue that, in these novels, multifocalization and the spatial reading it activates dismantle the cognitive schemas and cultural discourses that sustain unjust racial ideologies. Spatial reading engages readers in acts of rereading and contextualization that diverge from the practices of generalization and erasure affiliated with myths of racial progress and the rhetoric of colorblindness, and it accordingly builds readers’ capacity to acknowledge racism as systemic, structural, and multifaceted. By emphasizing how each novel facilitates readers’ racial literacy, this project diverges from and complicates the widespread belief that the humanities contribute to antiracism by building readerly empathy, instead championing how the humanities impart upon readers the tools to analyze and critique systemic racism. </p> North American literature The Underground Railroad Sing, Unburied, Sing Little Fires Everywhere There There Colson Whitehead Jesmyn Ward Celeste Ng Tommy Orange Racial Literacy Spatial Reading Multifocalization American Literature
12	Historieskrivning i den samtida historiska romanen : En läsning av Sarah Waters The night watch och Colson Whiteheads The underground railroad Ehn Svensson, Mikaela January 2020 (has links) It has always been important to study history. But what we can’t forget is that there’s more than one way of doing so. One of those is literature. In this thesis I will therefore study two contemporary historical novels: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. The aim is to explore how they portray different kinds of historical experiences and how that may relate to questions that are relevant even in a contemporary context. Because both novels have an interestning relationship with time and space, I’m going to use the russian literary theorist Micheal Bachtins concept of the chronotope to explore how time and space operates and relate to eachother. In the end, this thesis also aims to show that literature can be a valuable object to study for those that are intererested in histiography. historiography the historical novel contempary literature Sarah Waters The Night Watch Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Michail Bachtin chronotope time and space historiografi den historiska romanen samtida litteratur Sarah Waters The night watch Colson Whitehead The underground railroad Michail Bachtin kronotop tid och rum History of Ideas Idé- och lärdomshistoria
13	Teaching the Underground Railroad through Museum-School Partnerships: Enriching the Ohio Department of Education's Social Studies Standards Through Historic Sites, Artifacts, and Works of Art Doringo, Grace 06 June 2022 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African Americans American History Art Education Art History Black History Education Education History Fine Arts Museum Studies Museums Teacher Education Teaching Middle School Education Underground Railroad Ohio

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