SLAVE NARRATIVES WRITTEN BY WOMEN: THE PROBLEM OF SELF-IDENTITY
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2016-4-224-227
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of African American slave narratives written by women. The objective of the research is the issues of identity formation. To achieve this objective the following methods were used: contrastive-comparative method of stylistic analysis, motive analysis, biographical method. The interpretation of the texts under consideration enables us to come to the conclusion that the identity formation of the female personages of these texts occurs under the influence of their families and the cultural legacy of the whole community, the considered women writers pay special attention to the means of struggle of black women slaves for human dignity.
About the Author
Yu. I. Sapozhnikova
Smolensk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yulia L. Sapozhnikova,
4, Prshevalski street, Smolensk, Russia, 214000
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Sapozhnikova Yu.I. SLAVE NARRATIVES WRITTEN BY WOMEN: THE PROBLEM OF SELF-IDENTITY. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2016;(4):224-227. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2016-4-224-227
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