Making a Difference Through Design

Author

Haley Brooke Hill

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Art and Art History

First Advisor

Amy Evans

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

In this thesis, I discuss the following four novels: Meridian by Alice Walker, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell, The Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto, and Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund. In these novels, I look at the relationships between black female characters and white female characters. I analyze the ways in which their relationships are formed, the historic background that provides the setting for their relationships, and the author’s personal relationship with the text. Looking at cross-racial relationships among women in these novels shows that the authors attempt to reconcile relationships in history—real or imagined—with their rewriting of the Civil Rights Movement.

Recommended Citation

Hill, Haley Brooke, "Making a Difference Through Design" (2011). Honors Theses. 2218.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2218

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