Alice Walker's The color purple [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kheven LaGrone

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454345803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-59421-4; 9786612594212; 90-420-2891-2; 1-4416-0651-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
• Collana: Dialogue ; ; 5
• Altri autori (Persone): LaGroneKheven
• Disciplina: 810
• Soggetti: African American women in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- We Need a Hero: African American Female Bildungsromane and Celie’s Journey to Heroic Female Selfhood in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple / Brenda R. Smith -- Making Hurston’s Heroine Her Own: Love and Womanist Resistance in The Color Purple / Tracy L. Bealer -- Alice Walker’s The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale / Raphaël Lambert -- Rendering the African-American Woman’s God through The Color Purple / Patricia Andujo -- God is (a) Pussy: The Pleasure Principle and Homo-Spirituality in Shug’s Blueswoman Theology / Marlon Rachquel Moore -- Witnessing and Testifying: Transformed Language and Selves in The Color Purple / R. Erin Huskey -- “My Man Treats Me Like a Slave”: The Triumph of Womanist Blues over Blues Violence in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple / Courtney George -- Alice Walker’s Revisionary Politics of Rape / Robin E. Field -- Significance of Sisterhood and Lesbianism in Fiction of Women of Color / Uplabdhi Sangwan -- Homeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in The Color Purple / Danielle Russell -- A House of Her Own: Alice Walker’s Readjustment of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in The Color Purple / Turgay Bayindir -- Adapting and Integrating: The Color Purple as Broadway Musical / Kathryn Edney ; -- Alice Walker’s Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in The Color Purple / Apryl Denny -- Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple / Ping Zhou -- Essay Abstracts -- About The Authors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple is a tale of personal empowerment which opens with a protagonist Celie who is at the bottom of America's social caste. A poor, black, ugly and uneducated female in the America's Jim Crow South in the first half of the 20th century, she is the victim of constant rape, violence and misogynistic verbal abuse. Celie cannot conceive of an escape from her present condition, and so she learns to be passive and unemotional. But The Color Purple eventually demonstrates how Celie learns to fight back and how she discovers her true sexuality and her unique voice. By the end of the novel, Celie is an empowered, financially-independent entrepreneur/landowner, one who speaks her mind and realizes the desirability of black femaleness while creating a safe space for herself and those she loves. Through a journey of literary criticism, Dialogue: Alice Walker's The Color Purple follows Celie's transformation from victim to hero. Each scholarly essay becomes a step of the journey that paves the way for the development of self and sexual awareness, the beginnings of religious transformation and the creation of nurturing places like home and community.

When writing met art [[electronic resource] ] : from symbol to story / / Denise Schmandt-Besserat

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777769503321
• Autore: Schmandt-Besserat Denise
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-292-77487-7; 0-292-79549-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Disciplina: 701/.08
• Soggetti: Writing and art - Middle East; Art, Ancient - Middle East
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-127) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Writing and art -- How writing shaped art. -- Pottery painting -- Glyptic --The Uruk vase : sequential narrative -- Wall and floor painting -- How art shaped writing -- Funerary inscriptions -- Votive and dedicatory inscriptions -- The stele of Hammurabi -- Conclusion : the interface between writing and art.
• Sommario/riassunto: Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which she published in Before Writing: From Counting to Cuneiform and How Writing Came About, was widely reported in professional journals and the popular press. In 1999, American Scientist chose How Writing Came About as one of the "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science." In When Writing Met Art, Schmandt-Besserat expands her history of writing into the visual realm of communication. Using examples of ancient Near Eastern writing and masterpieces of art, she shows that between 3500 and 3000 BC the conventions of writing—everything from its linear organization to its semantic use of the form, size, order, and placement of signs—spread to the making of art, resulting in artworks that presented complex visual narratives in place of the repetitive motifs found on preliterate art objects. Schmandt-Besserat then demonstrates art's reciprocal ; impact on the development of writing. She shows how, beginning in 2700-2600 BC, the inclusion of inscriptions on funerary and votive art objects emancipated writing from its original accounting function. To fulfill its new role, writing evolved to replicate speech; this in turn made it possible to compile, organize, and synthesize unlimited amounts of information; and to preserve and disseminate information across time and space. Schmandt-Besserat's pioneering investigation of the interface between writing and art documents a key turning point in human history, when two of our most fundamental information media reciprocally multiplied their capacities to communicate. When writing met art, literate civilization was born.