Date of Award
Spring 2015
Thesis Type
Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Liberal Studies
Department
Interdisciplinary Studies
Advisor(s)
Emily Russell
Second Advisor
Paul Reich
Abstract
This project endeavors to explore the variations of the post-colonial condition in the context of the twentieth and twenty-first century by following a literary analysis of Bessie Head’s A Question of Power, Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. This thesis hopes to draw together a series of snapshots that provide examples of the progress of the post-colonial condition. Each chapter models the ways in which colonial ideology and culture continue to intersect in new modes of societal expectations especially in terms of race, class, and gender. The combination of post-colonial analysis and literary narratives model how post-colonial identity gains fluidity and continues to be reimagined in the context of the post-modern as post-colonialism expands to include cultural diaspora.
Recommended Citation
Ortega, Jeannine, "Post-Colonial Female Identity: An Examination of the Twentieth Century Narrative Between Nation and Identity in A Question of Power, See Then Now, and Americanah" (2015). Master of Liberal Studies Theses. 66.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/mls/66
Rights Holder
Jeannine Ortega