The Relevance of Female Bonds in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
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2017-11-06
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Jaén: Universidad de Jaén
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[ES] El presente trabajo examina el poder de los lazos afectivos entre mujeres en The Color Purple (1982) de Alice Walker and The Bluest Eye (1970) de Toni Morrison. La autora investiga cómo esos lazos contribuyen o inhiben la transformación y crecimiento personal de las protagonistas. María Serrano Gordo estructura su trabajo en seis capítulos. Tras una introducción donde justifica la necesidad de esta investigación, Serrano Gordo analiza el papel central que la literatura Afro Americana ha jugado en la lucha de las mujeres de color por la igualdad de género y raza y reseña las teorías sobre lazos afectivos entre mujeres. Los capítulos tres y cuatro pasan de la teoría a la práctica y se centran respectivamente en los personajes de Pecola en The Bluest Eye y Celie en The Color Purple. El capítulo cinco compara ambas novelas. La autora concluye con un resumen de sus hallazgos.
[EN] This work examines the power of female bonding in The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker and The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison. The author delves into how female bonding contributes or fails to contribute to the main characters´ self-transformation and personal development. María Serrano Gordo structures her work in six chapters. After an Introduction where she justifies the need to conduct her research, she analyses the key role African- American literature played in black women´s fight for gender and race equality and reviews theories of female bonding. Chapters three and four move from theory to practice, focusing respectively on the characters of Pecola in The Bluest Eye and Celie in The Color Purple. Chapter five brings the two novels together in a comparative analysis. The author concludes with a summary of her findings.
[EN] This work examines the power of female bonding in The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker and The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison. The author delves into how female bonding contributes or fails to contribute to the main characters´ self-transformation and personal development. María Serrano Gordo structures her work in six chapters. After an Introduction where she justifies the need to conduct her research, she analyses the key role African- American literature played in black women´s fight for gender and race equality and reviews theories of female bonding. Chapters three and four move from theory to practice, focusing respectively on the characters of Pecola in The Bluest Eye and Celie in The Color Purple. Chapter five brings the two novels together in a comparative analysis. The author concludes with a summary of her findings.
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