Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni
Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers
implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities
involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both novels have protagonists
that struggle with racism, sexism, and classism as barriers to their identity formation.
This study aims to reveal the ways in which multiple layers of oppression inhibit the
progress of contemporary African-American female heroines in modem Bildungsroman. / Graduation date: 2002
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/33313 |
| Date | 29 November 2001 |
| Creators | Carey, Cecelia V. |
| Contributors | Robinson, David M. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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