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Cullah Mi Gullah, African American Female Artists and the Sea Islands: Exploring Africanisms and Religious Expressions in Creative Works

Mulholland, Rebekkah Yisrael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1340413742

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2012, Master of Humanities (MHum), Wright State University, Humanities.
While the Sea Islands have captured the interest of scholars and artists, especially since Zora Neale Hurston's groundbreaking novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), this thesis provides a historiography of Africanisms and religious expressions explored in Gullah literary traditions within African-American women's fiction, specifically with regards to the works of Julie Dash and Tina McElroy Ansa. Following Hurston's example, during the 1980s Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara and Paule Marshall further laid the groundwork for writers to signify upon. This qualitative study of Dash's 1991 film and novel Daughters of the Dust (1997) along with Ansa's novels Baby of the Family (1989) and The Hand I Fan With (1996) highlight sources these women and visual artists like Johnathan Green creatively draw upon to construct narratives while exploring related motifs. These works reflect the growing interest in the southern landscape with regards to the Sea Islands and Geechee cultural traditions.
Tracy Snipe, PhD (Advisor)
Dana Patterson, PhD (Committee Member)
Jennifer Subban, PhD (Committee Member)
122 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; African History; African Studies; American History; American Literature; American Studies; Black History; Black Studies; Caribbean Literature; Caribbean Studies; Ethnic Studies; Film Studies; Gender Studies; History
Gullah; Geechee; historiography; Sea Islands; African American female artists; Africanisms; religious expressions

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  • Mulholland, R. Y. (2012). Cullah Mi Gullah, African American Female Artists and the Sea Islands: Exploring Africanisms and Religious Expressions in Creative Works [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1340413742

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mulholland, Rebekkah. Cullah Mi Gullah, African American Female Artists and the Sea Islands: Exploring Africanisms and Religious Expressions in Creative Works. 2012. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1340413742.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mulholland, Rebekkah. "Cullah Mi Gullah, African American Female Artists and the Sea Islands: Exploring Africanisms and Religious Expressions in Creative Works." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1340413742

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