The Depiction of the Struggle for Liberation in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery

Mgr. Katarína Hvojníková

Bachelor's thesis

Anotácia:

Pozícia afroameričanov a žien v Spojených štátoch devätnásteho storočia bola neľahká - boli utláčaní a museli bojovať za oslobodenie a lepšie postavenie v spoločnosti. Autobiografické dielo Bookera T. Washingtona Up from Slavery a román Kate Chopinovej The Awakening opisujú zložitú situáciu, v ktorej boli afroameričania a ženy a boj týchto skupín za svoje práva a oslobodenie. Táto práca sa zaoberá dvoma odlišnými prístupmi k tejto téme, ktoré zvolili Washington a Chopinová, posolstvom týchto dvoch diel a ich porovnaním, s cieľom poukázať na podobnosti a rozdiely medzi nimi.

Abstract:

The status of African Americans and women in the nineteenth-century USA was difficult: they were oppressed and thus had to fight for their liberation and better position in the society. Booker T. Washington's autobiographical narrative Up from Slavery and Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening describe the difficult conditions of African Americans and women respectively and depict the struggle of these groups for their rights and liberation. This thesis focuses on the two different approaches to this topic adopted by Washington and Chopin, the messages of the two works and their comparison, in order to establish parallels and differences between them.

Keywords

Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, Kate Chopin, The Awakening, struggle for liberation, abolition of slavery, status of African Americans, status of women

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 16. 5. 2012

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 11. 6. 2012
• Vedúci: Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Bachelor programme / odbor:
Philology / English Language and Literature