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1	Rhythmicity and Broken Narrative as a Means of Portraying Identity Crisis in Erna Brodber’s Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home Zheltukhina, Daria January 2012 (has links) In the present thesis, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, the novel by the Jamaican writer Erna Brodber, is analyzed in the context of post-colonial identity trauma. Analyzing the complex organizational and narrative structure of the novel, the essay author studies how the novel’s rhythmicity and the broken narrative portray the protagonist’s identity fragmentation. Drawing on the work’s connection to the ring game played in the Caribbean and applying the symbolism of the Caribbean folk rhythms, the essay author discusses the subversive intent of Brodber’s novel and her method of rewriting the past as a way of recovering one's identity. Erna Brodber Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home postcolonialism identity fragmentation colonial trauma broken narrative rhythmicity.
2	There is no there there anymore : The representation of collective and cultural trauma in Tommy Orange's There There Gustavson, Melinda January 2021 (has links) In this essay, the aim is to analyse the representation of collective and cultural trauma within the narrative of Tommy Orange's novel There There, as well as how the novel is redressing the experience of traumatisation, leading a way towards healing. To do this, the essay will focus on six of the novel's characters as well as the title, prologue and interlude. By using concepts of colonial and transgenerational trauma as well as survivance to approach the novel, the essay will argue that, as it makes the trauma visible, the narrative shows that healing can still be possible after traumatisation. Collective trauma Cultural trauma Colonial trauma Transgenerational trauma Survivance There there Healing Languages and Literature Språk och litteratur
3	The Projector Principle as a Means of Portraying the Cultural through the Personal in Olive Senior's Summer Lightning and Other Stories. Zelenenkaya, Ekaterina January 2012 (has links) The essay represents the projector principle, on which, as the essay’s author believes, the narration of The Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior is based. The projector principle illustrates the idea that little details and images in the text serve big purposes, for example, reflect the emotional state of the characters or how the characters construct their identity. The literary analysis of the present essay aims at exploring a complicated identity construction in the context of Jamaica with its half-lost indigenous and half-remained colonial legacies through the identity construction of adolescent Jamaican protagonists of the short stories. Olive Senior Summer Lightning projector principle allegory postcolonialism postcolonial literature personal identity cultural identity identity identity construction postcolonial Jamaica short stories Subaltern creole historical consciousness colonial trauma

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