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Crying In The Novel, Noor Dhingra
Crying In The Novel, Noor Dhingra
Pomona Senior Theses
What happens when characters cry in novels? And what does that tell us about the Victorian novel?
"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity In Postcolonial Adaptation, Teah Goldberg
"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity In Postcolonial Adaptation, Teah Goldberg
CGU Theses & Dissertations
My dissertation is entitled: “The Island has two sides: Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation.” In it I will argue that many postcolonial narratives either consciously or unconsciously adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest in an effort to resurrect repressed female narratives of resistance. Through an examination of Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter (2006), J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1988), and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), this dissertation will contribute to the fields of feminist and postcolonial studies by arguing that the kinds of female critical voices that we find embedded within these postcolonial texts, either …