Original title: Feminismus ve vybraných románech Toni Morrison a Alice Walker
Translated title: Feminism in Selected Novels by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker
Authors: Chýlková, Jana ; Veselá, Pavla (advisor) ; Robbins, David Lee (referee)
Document type: Bachelor's theses
Year: 2011
Language: eng
Abstract: [eng] [cze]
The specific works analyzed in this thesis will be Sula and Beloved by Toni Morrison, and The Color Purple by Alice Walker. I have chosen these novels for their significance in the African-American literary canon, and for qualities that were assessed over time. While the choice of the novels Beloved and The Color Purple is justified by The Pulitzer Prize, Sula - which is, among other things, a novel depicting the moral and physical decline of the main heroine - was selected to contrast with Walker's bildungsroman. However, the central theme of these novels that will be explored is a black woman and her questionable representation in literature. In their novels, Morrison and Walker find diverse solutions to the problematic nature of the place of black women in a patriarchal society. Nevertheless, the selected fiction will be explored separately in terms of the feminist/womanist aspects of Morrison's and Walker's works. The Conclusion will focus on a comparison of the selected works by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Thus, attention will be paid to the significant themes displayed in the novels such as racism and the limitations of gender roles. The objective of this analysis will be to find some common themes displayed in the authors' fiction that connect their understanding of the world, such as issues of... Tato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na aspekty feminismu ve vybraných románech afro-amerických spisovatelek, aktivistek a držitelek prestižní Pulitzerovy ceny za literaturu Toni Morrison, která získala i nejvyšší možné ocenění za literární tvorbu a to Nobelovu cenu, a Alice Walker. Cílem práce je detailní analýza dvou románů Toni Morrison: Sula a Beloved a jednoho románu Alice Walker: The Color Purple, přičemž právě poslední dvě jmenovaná díla vynesla spisovatelkám prestiž v podobě ocenění Pulitzerovu cenou. Pro každé z děl je vyčleněna jedna samostatná kapitola, kde jsou rozkrývány spojitosti mezi gendrovým pohledem na problematiku postavení afro-amerických žen ve společnosti, mezi odrazem jejich společenského postavení v literatuře a mezi tématy, která se v daném díle k této otázce přímo vztahují a dále ji rozvíjejí. Čtvrtá kapitola, závěr, se pak snaží analyzovat společné znaky v přístupu spisovatelek k dané problematice a naopak poukázat na aspekty, kterými se jejich narativní strategie a s ní související signifikantní prvky jejich tvorby liší.
Keywords: Alice Walker; Beloved; black community; black woman; feminism; limitations of gender roles; racism; Sula; The Color Purple; Toni Morrison; womanism; Alice Walker; Beloved; black community; black woman; feminism; limitations of gender roles; racism; Sula; The Color Purple; Toni Morrison; womanism

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/50620

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