Browsing by Subject "American Studies."
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Acts of empathic imagination: Contemporary Native American artists and writers as healers.
(2001)This dissertation uses the model of Native American "Morning Prayers" to establish four geographic and cultural regions within the United States as the means to discuss the relationship between health and contemporary ... -
Antimodern strategies: Ambivalence, accommodation, and protest in Willa Cather's "The Troll Garden".
(2004)In this project I argue that Willa Cather's earliest collection of stories, The Troll Garden (1905), demonstrates the antimodern ethos of the American fin de siecle period as characterized by both progressive rhetoric and ... -
Bells and whistles: The mass (re)production of female bodies for male consumption.
(2003)In this work I examine the way female bodies are constructed by contemporary ethnic U.S. women writers in the clash of cultures, thus involving a process of negotiation between the dominant culture and ethnicity. Of special ... -
The Children’s Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott
(2009-01)The antebellum years in the United States were marked by vigorous debates about national identity in which issues of hierarchy, authority, and democratic values came under intense scrutiny. During this period, a prime ... -
Dissent: Detroit and the underground press, 1965--1969.
(2001)The relationship between Detroit's underground presses---which included The Fifth Estate, Creem, Sun, the Artists' Workshop Press , the Inner City Voice, the South End Press, The Broadside Press, and Guerrilla---and the ... -
Exploration in the mare incognita: Natural history and conservation in early twentieth century America.
(2000)More a space than a place, the ocean had long occupied the American imagination as a geographical border to be crossed. The process of coming to know of the ocean as a place began in the nineteenth century, but it was not ... -
Fairness in American politics and culture.
(2001)Fairness is a term often used in political debate but not often carefully examined. In this dissertation I propose a way of understanding fairness by combining the insights of political theory with an examination of the ... -
Female fear: The body, gender, and the burdens of beauty.
(2001)The popularity of beauty culture is a constant reminder of the ways in which the female body is associated with fear. The decisions regarding participation in beauty culture seem to revolve around the fear-inspired need ... -
Gauging the impact of religion and culture on public opinion: A multi-method cross-national and cross-cultural examination of Mormons.
(1998)Recent years have witnessed a growing interest among political scientists in the "religious dimension" of public opinion. However, a lack of authoritative interpretation within denominations, ethnic and political cultural ... -
Gettysburg, a living battlefield.
(2000)National Park Service (NPS) battlefields are designed as eternal tributes, but there is little permanence about these landscapes. Structures, scenery, and stories frequently change in relation to public memory of the events ... -
Gumbo Banaha Stories: Louisiana Indigeneities and the Transnational South
(2014-05-09)Abstract Post devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana has again become a popular exoticized presence in the American entertainment machine. As a result, scholarly studies have renewed interest in the historic ... -
Innovation, imitation, and resisting manipulation: The first twenty years of American teenagers, 1941-1961.
(1998)Over the twenty-year span of the 1940s and 1950s, a growing sense of separation and resistance to the mainstream culture developed, characterized by distinctive food, slang, music, dress, and sexual behavior. By studying ... -
Interest group federalism: Indian gaming and the status of Indian tribes in the American political system.
(1997)This dissertation seeks to answer the question, "What is the status of Indian tribes in the American political system at the end of the twentieth century" by studying how New Mexico and Oklahoma tribes have attempted to ... -
Irish music in central Oklahoma: An ethnographic study.
(2006)Based mainly on fieldwork conducted in the Oklahoma City and Norman areas over a three-and-a-half year span (2002--2006), the research material for this dissertation has been gathered primarily through the author's ... -
Italian American identity: A hermeneutic examination of Tampa's Italian community.
(2007)This study focuses on how diverse interpretations of ethnicity within the United States produce meaning for Italian Americans. Research regarding Italian Americans and the effects of negative stereotypes, cultural products, ... -
Listening to our grandmothers' stories: An historical analysis of the literacy curricula at Bloomfield Academy/Carter Seminary for Chickasaw Females, Indian Territory/Oklahoma, 1852-1949.
(1997)This project examines the literacy curriculum of the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, a boarding academy established by the Chickasaw tribe in conjunction with missionaries. The school is unique in that the Chickasaw ... -
Marketing food, making meaning: Themes in twentieth-century American food advertising.
(2006)Though both advertising and the idea of nature are ubiquitous in American culture, little work has been done to examine how the former constructs the latter. Advertising is everywhere, and nature is everywhere in ... -
The mountain man in American history and culture.
(2000)The mountain man hero evolved mostly during the nineteenth century owing to various media and changing cultural currents. He embodied and projected Jacksonian ideals (as an adventurous enterpriser), notions of Manifest ... -
Performative designs: Female identity in Louisa May Alcott's sensational and sentimental fiction.
(2000)This is a study of Louisa May Alcott's conceptions of female identity in her sensational and sentimental fiction. Presenting a historical and cultural analysis of the sentimental notion of femininity, I analyze how Alcott's ... -
Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context
(2009-06)In what ways can the study of science and popular culture in the American context contribute to ongoing debates on popularization and popular science? This essay suggests that, for several reasons, attention to the antebellum ...