{"id":14560,"date":"2011-06-26T19:50:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14560"},"modified":"2011-06-26T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T19:50:58","slug":"from-exile-to-transcendence-racial-mixture-and-the-journey-of-revision-in-the-works-of-lydia-maria-child-hannah-crafts-kate-chopin-james-weldon-johnson-and-jean-toomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14560","title":{"rendered":"From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/15576 \" target=\"_blank\">From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<br \/>\nMay 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suzanne M. Lynch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My study, entitled <em>From Exiles to Transcendences<\/em> focuses on five authors: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lydia_Maria_Child\" target=\"_blank\">Lydia Maria Child<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hannah_Crafts\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Crafts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kate_Chopin\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Chopin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Weldon_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">James Weldon Johnson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Toomer\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Toomer<\/a>. It examines each author\u2019s effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant \u201cprocess of becoming\u201d (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the American mixed-race character in American literature and to provide a thorough reading of how this distinctiveness is portrayed and sustained throughout the scope of the selected texts. My dissertation identifies the mixed-race voice as experientially distinct from other American raced voices while acknowledging the mixed-race character as one who demonstrates a connectedness to a plurality of racial cultures. The following chapters span a period of approximately 100 years and illustrate a common concern among them, albeit from differing perspectives and influences, regarding how home and family function as fluid spaces of racial subjectivity. My study maintains a position that the above authors questioned the presumed irreversibility of an entrenched understanding of family ties; that they challenged and rescripted the historically defined self with a self that privileges experience and discovery over pre-given identities; and that they depicted their characters as evolving subjects who created themselves with name and identity as they moved toward their \u201cprocess of becoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the dissertation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideals.illinois.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/2142\/15576\/1_Lynch_Suzanne.pdf?sequence=3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (may require log-in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2010 Suzanne M. Lynch My study, entitled From Exiles to Transcendences focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,1196,8],"tags":[5770,1307,1996,483,6664,77,6663,6662,6661],"class_list":["post-14560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-hannah-crafts","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-jean-toomer","tag-kate-chopin","tag-lydia-child","tag-lydia-maria-child","tag-suzanne-lynch","tag-suzanne-m-lynch","tag-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}