Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
5-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Matthew Christensen
Second Advisor
Dr. Marci R. McMahon
Third Advisor
Dr. Caroline Miles
Abstract
Creolization became an important element to creole identity by explaining the development of cultural mixing in the Caribbean. While many scholars have focused on the marginalization of creole identity at the hands of the colonizer, this paper addresses the way creole subjects use creolization as a form of agency. Two specific post-colonial texts will be explored in the order of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven. The essay begins with Wide Sargasso Sea to gain an early historical context of the treatment of creole women, and to establish the need of developing a voice against patriarchal hegemony. No Telephone to Heaven evidences a post-revolutionary historical context and enforces a stronger sense of identity formation and healing through the process of creolization. Across both texts creole women throughout the centuries are given a sense of self through developments of acculturation and interculturation.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2015 Victoria A. Marin. All Rights Reserved.
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