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The Reversal of Power Relations in "Dessa Rose"

Name: The Reversal of Power Relations in "Dessa Rose"
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Author: Christina Gieseler
ISBN: 978-3-656-22708-3

Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2012

20 Pages, Grade: 1,0

Christina Gieseler (Author)

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1 Introduction

2 Defying the Power of Literacy
2.1 Adam Nehemiah's Master Text in Dessa Rose
2.2 Dessa's Seizing of the Power of the Word
2.3 Resisting the Prescriptive Pen

3 Exercising the Power of Orality
3.1 The Power of Listening and Speaking
3.2 The Power of Humming and Singing
3.3 Dessa's Final Victory by the Use of Orality and Literacy

4 Reversing Power Relations through Narrative Form
4.1 The Deconstruction of Nehemiah's Master Text through Narrative Transmission
4.2 The Reversal of Slave Narrative Conventions

5 Conclusion

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Title: The Reversal of Power Relations in "Dessa Rose"
College: University of Wuppertal
Course: Postmodern Neo-Slave Narratives
Grade: 1,0
Author: Christina Gieseler (Author)
Year: 2012
Pages: 20
Catalog Number: V196427
ISBN (eBook): 9783656225409
ISBN (Book): 9783656227083
File size: 494 KB
Language: English
Notes: Hauptseminar-Arbeit im Master-Studiengang
Keywords: Dessa Rose Postmodernism Neo Slave Narrative

Quote paper: Christina Gieseler (Author), 2012, The Reversal of Power Relations in "Dessa Rose", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/196427

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