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    A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA

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    Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan
    Abstract
    Through analysis of Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid, and Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell this thesis explores women's loss of identity through colonialism and ways in which they can escape from identity loss and oppression. The thesis begins with an explanation of colonialism and how it can harm a person's identity by causing loss of sexual freedom, autonomy, language and self-respect. It is also explains that identity can be protected or regained by rebelling against the rules established by colonizers. Through analysis of each book, these aspects of identity loss are outlined as well as ways in which the women depicted regain agency. In conclusion, the thesis asserts that the only way the colonized can be free is if they are allowed to tell their own stories, and thereby overturn the colonizer-dominated view of the world.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4392
    Subject
     Literature; Caribbean literature; Colonialism; Identity; Women; Purple hibiscus; Autobiography of my mother, The; Beka Lamb 
    Date
    2013
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    Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan. (January 2013). A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4392.)

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    Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan. A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2013. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4392. March 04, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan, “A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2013).
    AMA:
    Mercer-Bourne, Laura Maegan. A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2013.
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    East Carolina University

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