Utilising post-civil rights theory of colour blind racism to examine Jean Louise’s ‘visual defect’ and subsequently her bildungsroman in Go Set A Watchman

• Main Author: Lim, Zhi Yi
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/71534
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The study of Go Set A Watchman (GSAW) left many readers such as Judy M. Cornett seeking the essence of realism within Jean Louise’s dramatized reaction upon her discovery of her family’s views on race, which contrasts sharply with her upbringing. It bewilders readers how “any well-informed person, m...