dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Poletti, Anna | |
dc.contributor.author | Bekkum, B. van | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-16T17:00:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-16T17:00:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/32861 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study explores innocence form a two-fold perspective. The first chapter explores innocence from the perspective of James Baldwin and The Fire Next Time. It focusses on innocence in American society and the accompanying attitudes toward people of colour.
The second chapter focusses on Gloria Wekker and her book White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. This book explores the post-colonial attitudes of innocence in the Netherlands. In the final chapter the two types of innocence are compared. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 190488 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Innocence in Baldwin and Wekker Compared
Different Times Same Innocence | |
dc.type.content | Bachelor Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | James Baldwin, Gloria Wekker, Innocence, Post-colonial Studies, Psychoanalytical theory. | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Engelse taal en cultuur | |