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A Child's Call: Braiding Narratives ...

Bancroft, Corinne.

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A Child's Call: Braiding Narratives in the Face of Racial Violence.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A Child's Call: Braiding Narratives in the Face of Racial Violence./
作者:	Bancroft, Corinne.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	349 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-03A(E).
標題:	American literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10937090
ISBN:	9780438630604

A Child's Call: Braiding Narratives in the Face of Racial Violence.
Bancroft, Corinne.

A Child's Call: Braiding Narratives in the Face of Racial Violence. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 349 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018.

"Hey, Mr. Cunningham," Scout Finch calls to the single familiar face in a crowd of white men as she stands at the door of a jail that wrongly incarcerates a Black man for a crime that she does not understand. This famous scene from Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) where an eight-year-old stops a lynch mob is both object and emblem of my dissertation project. "A Child's Call: Braiding Narratives in the Face of Racial Violence" draws on critical race theory and cognitive approaches to literature to show how contemporary American writers focus on child characters as instruments for narrating violence and violation, and how these children's voices call adult characters and actual readers toward a heightened sense of social responsibility. While Scout's pleasantries move the adult characters toward an everyday responsibility of caregiving, other such child protagonists face insurmountable barriers: in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970), all adults fail to hear the cry of ten-year-old Pecola Breedlove, and many, such as the white storekeeper fail to "see" her. Despite their differing political analyses and aesthetic projects, both Lee and Morrison trust a child with the task of reimagining the world and realigning our ethical responsibilities.

ISBN: 9780438630604Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.

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