The mobility of memory and shame: African American and Afro-Caribbean women’s fiction 1980’s-1990’s

The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the mixed legacy of shame. I work through the interrelationship between productive shame and debilitating shame and a character’s journey through this spectrum. In my research, I define shame not in the pejorative, but rather I repurpose the term to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Akia
Other Authors: Thaggert, Miriam
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6962
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8463&context=etd