Date of Award
2002
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Stover, Johnnie
Abstract
A mimetic approach to multicultural texts assumes that literary representations are reflections of real life situations and persons. Moving beyond a mimetic approach, I argue that the multicultural works examined in this thesis present an odyssey: characters travel across cultural, political, spiritual, and imaginative space and readers follow those characters through their journeys. Applying possible worlds theory to literature written by African-American and Caribbean female writers allows a reading which never loses sight of the political or cultural ties to our actual world, but sees them as altered by the authors in all sorts of interesting ways.
Extent
88 p.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Craig Adrian, "Crossing multiple worlds in multicultural literature: A possible worlds reading of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor and Michelle Cliff" (2002). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 363.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/363
Identifier
FADT12941
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2002.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters