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Cultural Dislocation and Humanity Lost: A Post-Colonial Analysis of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.08.004
University of Shanghai Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Alice Walker is a famous African-American female author whose short story “Everyday Use” takes the conflict between a mother and her two daughters over the final ownership of “a quilt” as the main line and creates three black women characters with bright personality. This paper will focus on the living conditions and spiritual world of black women, and reflects the anxiety of black women on ethnic cultural heritage within the white world and reveals the suppression of the strong culture to the weak culture, and the self-preservation of the weak culture from the perspective of post-colonialism.
“Everyday use”, post-colonialism, black women, cultural dislocation
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, August 2023, Vol. 13, No. 8, 580-584
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