Resumen de Between the self and others: subjective and social consciousness in Toni Morrison's "Jazz" and Dionne Brand's "In Another Place, Not Here"
- español
Este artículo analiza y evalúa la manera en que dos autoras formulan y desarrollan un equilibrio entre la conciencia subjetiva y la social en dos novelas norteamericanas: Jazz, de Toni Morrison, y In Another Place, Not Here, de Dionea Brand. Me propongo explorar este equilibrio en referencia a las cuestiones de clase, género y raza que las novelas ponen de relieve. En primer lugar hago un análisis de los espacios individuales y colectivos con relación a la agencia y al determinismo social; a continuación presto atención a la figura del antepasado y a las técnicas textuales de las que estas escritoras se sirven para sostener su concepción de aquello...
- English
This article analyzes and evaluates the way in which a counterbalance between subjective and social consciousness is articulated and developed in two North- American novels: Toni Morrison¿s Jazz and Dionne Brand¿s In Another Place, Not Here. This counterbalance is explored with reference to the issues of class, gender and race that the novels bring to the foreground. First I will make an analysis of individual and collective spaces in relation to agency and social determinism; afterwards I will pay attention to the figure of the ancestor and to textual techniques which also help these writers assess the view of what constitutes a balance between...
