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The problem of racism in Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help

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Szulkowska A.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

2017

vol. 16

This article analyzes Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (2009) with the main focus on the presentation of the ubiquitous problem of racism experienced by African Americans in the United States. Specifically, it demonstrates shameful, humiliating and unbearable living conditions of black maids in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. It discusses different types of racism, such as overt, institutional, and structural, which occur in this community. Additionally, this paper provides an overview of the history of racism in the USA. The purpose of this article is to examine the history of interracial relationships in the USA, which sheds light on the problem of white supremacy, as well as demonstrates the damaging consequences of racial prejudice. However, the main objective of the paper is to analyse the relationships between white and black characters inhabiting Jackson, Mississippi as depicted in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help.

Antropocen nad Missisipi – języki rzeki

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Nacher A.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

2021

vol. 113

issue 1

43-59

This article investigates to what extent the concept of Anthropocene allows for grasping the specificity of particular ecosystems and their complex histories. The point of focus here is the Upper Mississippi River Valley and a set of historical and contemporary discourses coalescing around it. Starting with the early travelogues and incorporating modern mapping attempts, a popular classic monograph by Calvin R. Fremling and the contemporary documenting projects such as Mississippi. An Anthropocene River and The American Bottom, the article traces the discursive discontinuities that may provide the ground for conceiving the alternative histories of the Anthropocene, more inclusive of indigenous knowledge, open to multiple knowledge registers, and transcending beyond the Eurocentric models of rationalism supporting the economy of extraction. To this end, a new understanding of relational ontologies is suggested following the notion of other-than-human persons as proposed by anthropologists interested in revisiting the basic tenets of animism and laying foundations for new animism (while taking various aspects of indigenous knowledge into account). Tapping into the concept of Place-Thought, the essay proposes an effective decolonisation of the discussion on the Anthropocene.

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The problem of racism in Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help

Antropocen nad Missisipi – języki rzeki