Open AccessSLAVE NARRATIVES WRITTEN BY WOMEN: THE PROBLEM OF SELF-IDENTITY
Author(s) -
Ю. Л. Сапожникова
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
vestnik kemerovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2078-8983
pISSN - 2078-8975
DOI - 10.21603/2078-8975-2016-4-224-227
Subject(s) - dignity , narrative , identity (music) , interpretation (philosophy) , gender studies , sociology , aesthetics , linguistics , literature , political science , law , art , philosophy
The article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of African American slave narratives written by women. The objective of the research is the issues of identity formation. To achieve this objective the following methods were used: contrastive-comparative method of stylistic analysis, motive analysis, biographical method. The interpretation of the texts under consideration enables us to come to the conclusion that the identity formation of the female personages of these texts occurs under the influence of their families and the cultural legacy of the whole community, the considered women writers pay special attention to the means of struggle of black women slaves for human dignity.