The forging of a plural selfhood.

• Main Author: Tan, Yan Fang.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50368
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This is a paper on the constituition of selfhood among African-American women, with reference to Alice Walker's The Colour Purple and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. These women overcame all adversities and established their identities via their communities, familie...