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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Denard, Carolyn Coleman. "Return to the Briar Patch: Ethnic Cultural Consciousness in the Fiction of Toni Morrison," Emory University, May 1986.
This dissertation explores the cultural implications of the desire of newly integrated blacks to maintain conscious connections with the culture of their segregated past. Through a literary-anthropological analysis of Toni Morrison’s fiction, it uncovers those cultural aspects of the black segregated past which at least one representative member of the newly integrated generation of blacks believes to be important. This study argues that the desire for conscious cultural connections with one’s ethnic past is a longing characteristic of all groups in multiethnic societies, and that the manifestations of separate group cultural life that surface as a result of this desire provide valuable resources for the cultural historian.
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