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Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use

This article examines Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use as post-colonial texts. Morrison's short story moves beyond the postcolonial aftermath to maintain pre-colonial cultural conventions. The discussion begins with how Recitatif is considered within the field...

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Main Authors: Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader, Termizi, Arbaayah Ali, Moghadam, Nahid Shahbazi
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Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2015
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spelling my.upm.eprints.417312016-01-27T06:12:37Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/41731/ Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader Termizi, Arbaayah Ali Moghadam, Nahid Shahbazi This article examines Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use as post-colonial texts. Morrison's short story moves beyond the postcolonial aftermath to maintain pre-colonial cultural conventions. The discussion begins with how Recitatif is considered within the field of postcolonial studies, demonstrating such postcolonial concepts as diaspora, nativism and chromatism. The study also focuses on Alice Walker's short story Everyday Use, and discusses how various forms of Filiation/Affiliation and Synergy contribute to the conventions of precolonial culture. Everyday Use aims precisely at ethical propensity within colonial circumference. Thus, Walkerself-consciously illustrates the level of its pre-colonial features, which expose the colonisation dispersal of identity. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/41731/1/02%20JSSH%28S%29-0057-2015.pdf Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader and Termizi, Arbaayah Ali and Moghadam, Nahid Shahbazi (2015) Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 23 (spec. Dec.). pp. 15-26. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534 http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2023%20%28S%29%20Dec.%202015/02%20JSSH%28S%29-0057-2015.pdf
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description This article examines Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use as post-colonial texts. Morrison's short story moves beyond the postcolonial aftermath to maintain pre-colonial cultural conventions. The discussion begins with how Recitatif is considered within the field of postcolonial studies, demonstrating such postcolonial concepts as diaspora, nativism and chromatism. The study also focuses on Alice Walker's short story Everyday Use, and discusses how various forms of Filiation/Affiliation and Synergy contribute to the conventions of precolonial culture. Everyday Use aims precisely at ethical propensity within colonial circumference. Thus, Walkerself-consciously illustrates the level of its pre-colonial features, which expose the colonisation dispersal of identity.
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author Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader
Termizi, Arbaayah Ali
Moghadam, Nahid Shahbazi
spellingShingle Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader
Termizi, Arbaayah Ali
Moghadam, Nahid Shahbazi
Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use
author_facet Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader
Termizi, Arbaayah Ali
Moghadam, Nahid Shahbazi
author_sort Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader
title Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use
title_short Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use
title_full Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use
title_fullStr Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use
title_full_unstemmed Pre-colonial residuals in Toni Morrison's Recitatif and Alice Walker's Everyday Use
title_sort pre-colonial residuals in toni morrison's recitatif and alice walker's everyday use
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
publishDate 2015
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/41731/1/02%20JSSH%28S%29-0057-2015.pdf
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