Motherhood and Sisterhood in Gloria Naylor s Novels – Mgr. Lucie Procházková
Mgr. Lucie Procházková
Master's thesis
Motherhood and Sisterhood in Gloria Naylor s Novels
Motherhood and Sisterhood in Gloria Naylor s Novels
Abstract:
Cílem této práce je rozebrat a nastínit vývoj zobrazení mateřských a sesterských vztahů v prvních čtyřech románech Glorie Naylorové: The Women of Brewster Place (TWoBP), Linden Hills (LH), Mama Day (MD) a Bailey’s Café (BC). Postavy matek v románech Naylorové často hrají roli neformální náhradní matky jiných, už dospělých žen. Hranice mezi vztahem matka — dítě a sestra — sestra je velmi tenká, protože …moreAbstract:
The aim of the thesis is to analyse and trace the development of motherhood and sisterhood in Naylor’s first four novels: The Women of Brewster Place (TWoBP), Linden Hills (LH), Mama Day (MD) a Bailey’s Café (BC). Naylor’s mother characters often act as othermothers of other women, thus the line between motherhood and sisterhood in her fiction is very thin. Naylor seems to put less emphasis on biological …more
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 16. 5. 2012
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/ubs5p/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 15. 6. 2012
- Supervisor: Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A.
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Philology / English Language and Literature
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