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Mgr. Nona Petrosyan

Master's thesis

Between Past and Present: Cultural Trauma in "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom".

Between Past and Present: Cultural Trauma in "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom".
Abstract:
The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the representation of African American cultural trauma in the movie adaptations of Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Taking into account the historical setting discussed in the first main chapter and theoretical background information on trauma studies analyzed in the second main chapter, the thesis will equally focus on the narrative and visual representation …more
Abstract:
The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the representation of African American cultural trauma in the movie adaptations of Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Taking into account the historical setting discussed in the first main chapter and theoretical background information on trauma studies analyzed in the second main chapter, the thesis will equally focus on the narrative and visual representation …more
 

Keywords

Trauma cultural trauma trauma cinema intergenerational trauma post-traumatic slave syndrome racial inequality
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 25. 5. 2022
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/f8jpo/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 14. 6. 2022
  • Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.
  • Reader: B.A. Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel

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Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
North-American Culture Studies / Anglophone and Hispanophone Area Studies

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