French Caribbean Women and the Problem of Empowerment: A look at Moi, Tituba, sorcière...Noire de Salem and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle

dc.contributor.authorLovasz, Michelle Anneen
dc.contributor.committeechairFarquhar, Sueen
dc.contributor.committeememberO'Donnell, J. Dean Jr.en
dc.contributor.committeememberGillman, Laura J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberGueye, Medouneen
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:35:04Zen
dc.date.adate2002-05-15en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:35:04Zen
dc.date.issued2002-04-23en
dc.date.rdate2012-11-06en
dc.date.sdate2002-05-05en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the problem of self-empowerment for the French Caribbean Black woman as presented in the novels Moi, Tituba, sorcière...Noire de Salem and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle. The respective authors, Maryse Condé and Simone Schwarz- Bart, use fiction to convey the plight of women in the French Caribbean. They successfully create characters who refuse marginalization imposed by their patriarchal and oppressive societies. Condé’s novel, set in the 17th century first in Barbados, and then in Puritan New England depicts the challenges Tituba overcomes in reaching liberation. Schwarz-Bart presents the story of Télumée, set in Guadeloupe at the beginning of the 20th century. My study focuses specifically on the characters of Tituba and Télumée to show ways that they thwart the dominant social structures and norms that seek to disempower them. It reveals ways that Condé and Schwarz-Bart make use of literature to reverse European perceptions of gender and race. Consequently, the literary fictions they create suggest possible ways of escaping marginalization and refusing racial and gendered subjugation.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05052002-210730en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05052002-210730/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32208en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartML-Thesis.pdfen
dc.relation.haspartThesis-Abstract-Bib.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectIdentity Politicsen
dc.subjectEmpowermenten
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen
dc.subjectCréolitéen
dc.subjectSimone Schwarz-Barten
dc.subjectMaryse Condéen
dc.titleFrench Caribbean Women and the Problem of Empowerment: A look at Moi, Tituba, sorcière...Noire de Salem and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracleen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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