Black women's experiences on oppression and the road to self-definition:An intersectional reading of Nella Larsen's Quicksand, Passing and 'Sanctuary'
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- Tez No: 716420
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- Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans
- Konular: Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı, American Culture and Literature
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Nella Larsen, Harlem Renaissance, Intersectionality, Black women's oppressive experiences, Sense of belongingness, Self-definition
- Yıl: 2019
- Dil: İngilizce
- Üniversite: Aalborg Universitet
- Enstitü: Yurtdışı Enstitü
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- Sayfa Sayısı: 82
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Initially, this dissertation has offered two contextual settings both of which account for Nella Larsen's life background and the short period of the Harlem Renaissance that remarkably influenced her personally and which led to her literary breakthrough, yet eventually resulted in her downfall all the same. Having delved into Larsen's complicated life story and thereafter explained the artistic era, this paper has offered the reader a coherent understanding of Larsen's literary oeuvre and as such provided an extensive understanding of Quicksand, Passing and“Sanctuary”, as Larsen largely interwove real life experiences into her works. The contextual settings were therefore imperative for this project as the structure laid the base foundation upon which the theoretical and analytical materials could develop and consequently propose an interpretive research. The theory section has firstly described Kimberlé Crenshaw's notion of intersectionality, for indeed, it is her notion that has been used as a leitmotif, and hence served to be the leading thread throughout this thesis. As such, this project has attempted to operate with Larsen's texts through an intersectional reading in order to accentuate the oppressive forces in the lives of Larsen's fictive characters, namely Helga, Irene, Clare and Poole. Subsequently, Stuart Hall's ideas of 'difference', stereotyping and identification have been explained for in that way to combine his work with the intersectionality theory and additionally, augment the understanding of the wide-ranging oppression the mentioned characters deal with. Furthermore, Patricia Hill Collins' ideas of black women's shared oppression, self-definition, politics of sexuality and sexual expression have all contributed to broaden the understanding of oppression, again, within the purview of an intersectional reading. Hall and Collins' theories have therefore functioned to illuminate how black women in Larsen's texts experience oppression as well as how society's imposed beliefs and expectations impede these women's journey to self-definition and hamper their road to a more authentic way of life. In the analysis section, this paper has utilized the theories of Crenshaw, Hall and Collins and shown how the respective ideas manifest themselves in Larsen's Quicksand, Passing, and“Sanctuary”. This dissertation can therefore conclude that the multiple and distinctive crossings of race, sexuality, gender, class and identity have a simultaneously oppressive effect in the lives of the analyzed characters just Öztürk 80 like they had for Larsen. It can thus be summarized that society's understanding of black women has an immense impact in how Larsen's characters perceive themselves and their world. Larsen, having undergone similar experiences as her characters, articulates with the aid of literature how societal intersecting pressures can become excessive for a black woman and how blackness is an individual matter that one ought to define for oneself. Finally, the discussion section has presented different views to the plagiarism scandal that Larsen faced and offered to open up for a dialogical awareness on this matter, as it seems to be more complex than one might first assume.
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