Racism and hybridity in Octavia butler's kindred and wild seed
Dissertant
al-Qayyim, Ala al-Din Ahmad Sulayman
Thesis advisor
Comitee Members
Abd al-Karim, Majid Yahya
al-Hawamidah, Husayn
University
Jerash University
Faculty
College of Arts
Department
Department of English
University Country
Jordan
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2016
English Abstract
This thesis explores Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed and Kindred from a postcolonial perspective.
Two important concepts thus will be applied: Homi Bhabha’s concept of ambivalence and Edward Said’s concept of Self-Other relationship.
The study seeks accordingly to unravel how the black Africans and the white Americans perceive each other on the basis of racism and slavery.
On the one hand, the Africans see the Americans as cruel, exploitive, but charitable.
On the other hand, the Americans judge the Africans as inferior but have the right to resist in order to reclaim their cultural identity and freedom.
By analyzing this relationship, the study will show how the opposition between the white Americans and the afro-Americans is not reconciled, and it has an everlasting ambivalence between black Americans and the white American colonial masters.
To carry out this plan, the work is divided into three chapters and a conclusion.
The first chapter is introductory and tackles the history of slavery, literature review, definition of postcolonial concepts, and the author’s relevant biography.
The second chapter tackles racism and slavery in Kindred.
Chapter three discusses colonial suppression in Wild Seed.
Finally, a conclusion tries to sum up the main arguments in the previous chapters
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
No. of Pages
117
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Chapter One : Introduction.
Chapter Two : Racism and slavery in kindred.
Chapter Three : Colonial suppression in wild seed.
Conclusion.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Qayyim, Ala al-Din Ahmad Sulayman. (2016). Racism and hybridity in Octavia butler's kindred and wild seed. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Jerash University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-720907
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Qayyim, Ala al-Din Ahmad Sulayman. Racism and hybridity in Octavia butler's kindred and wild seed. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Jerash University. (2016).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-720907
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Qayyim, Ala al-Din Ahmad Sulayman. (2016). Racism and hybridity in Octavia butler's kindred and wild seed. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Jerash University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-720907
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-720907
