{"id":16624,"date":"2011-10-02T01:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T01:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2011-10-03T05:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T05:09:58","slug":"%e2%80%9chome-is-nowehere%e2%80%9d-negotiating-identities-in-colonized-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16624","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHome is Nowehere\u201d: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10724\/10051 \" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHome is Nowehere\u201d: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Georgia<br \/>\n2007<br \/>\n57 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julia A. Tigner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bildungsroman\" target=\"_blank\">Bildungsroman<\/a>, a term that derived from German literary criticism, is a genre of literature that highlights popular conceptions of manhood and depicts the growth of the male protagonist. Many female authors use the Bildungsroman as a form of cultural expression not only to transform patriarchal views, but also to redefine femininity, articulate cultural conflict, and describe what it means to be a woman in a colonized culture. I will revisit this topic in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.emory.edu\/Bahri\/Cliff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Cliff\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=13596\" target=\"_blank\">Abeng<\/a><\/em> (1984) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie\" target=\"_blank\">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workman.com\/products\/9781565128163\/\" target=\"_blank\">Purple Hibiscus<\/a><\/em> (2003), and examine family dynamics in order to show how each female protagonist negotiates the complexities of a hybrid identity and attempts to harmonize two opposite cultures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHAPTERS\n<ul>\n<li>1. INTRODUCTION<\/li>\n<li>2. \u201cBETWEEN AFRICANNESS AND EUROPEANNESS: FORGING IDENTITIES IN MICHELLE CLIFF\u2019S <em>ABENG<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>3. \u201cTRADITION OR MODERNITY IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE\u2019S <em>PURPLE HIBISCUS<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>4. CONCLUSION<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/ugakr.libs.uga.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/10724\/10051\/tigner_julia_a_200708_ma.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHome is Nowehere\u201d: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds University of Georgia 2007 57 pages Julia A. Tigner A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS The Bildungsroman, a term that derived from German literary criticism, is a genre of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,1196,8,25],"tags":[7689,7690,7691,2755,7678],"class_list":["post-16624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie","tag-julia-a-tigner","tag-julia-tigner","tag-michelle-cliff","tag-university-of-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624","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=16624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}