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The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved
- Author(s):
- Judy Bertonazzi (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- Aesthetics, American literature, Comparative literature, Feminist theory, Poetics
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- IUP English Graduate Organization Conference
- Conf. Org.:
- IUP English Graduate Organization
- Conf. Loc.:
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Conf. Date:
- January 2007
- Tag(s):
- decolonial theory, embodiment, epistemology, Postcolonialism, representations
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6S233
- Abstract:
- This paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison's Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of ghosts and the themes of ghost figures and their relationships to living relatives within these narratives. Through textual analysis of these literary elements, I argue that those scholars interested in postcolonial narratives, particularly those interested in subalternity and representation can gain knowledge of how the subaltern, especially the female subaltern, can claim their own identity and agency among dominant groups in the U.S.
- Notes:
- This paper was not edited, revised, or altered in any way since it was printed for the January 2007 IUP EGO conference where it was presented.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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