Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Major/Program
English
First Advisor's Name
Martha Schoolman
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee chair
Second Advisor's Name
Jason Pearl
Second Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Third Advisor's Name
Heather Russell
Third Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Keywords
post structuralism, post colonialism, literature, Caribbean, Francophone literature, Anglophone literature, gender, race, class, narrative temporality
Date of Defense
3-27-2018
Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS
RE-IMAGINING THE VICTORIAN CLASSICS: POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST REWRITINGS OF EMILY BRONTË
by
Yannel M. Celestrin
Florida International University, 2018
Miami, Florida
Professor Martha Schoolman, Major Professor
Through a post-structural lens, I will focus on the Caribbean, specifically Cuba, Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, and Roseau, and how the history of colonialism impacted these islands. As the primary text of my thesis begins during the Cuban War of Independence of the 1890s, I will use this timeframe as the starting point of my analysis. In my thesis, I will compare Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heightsand Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights. Specifically, I will examine Condé’s processes of reimagining and rewriting Brontë’s narrative by deconstructing the notions of history, race, gender, and class. I will also explore ways in which Condé disrupts the hegemonic and linear notions of narrative temporality in an attempt to unsilence the voices of colonized subjects. I argue that Condé’s work is a significant contribution to the practice of rewriting as well as to the canon of Caribbean literary history. I argue that the very process of rewriting is a powerful mode of resistance against colonizing powers and hegemonic discourse.
Identifier
FIDC006529
Recommended Citation
Celestrin, Yannel, "Re-Imagining the Victorian Classics: Postcolonial Feminist Rewritings of Emily Brontë" (2018). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3665.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3665
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