Browsing by Author "John, Catherine"
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Anzaldúan Theory: Frameworks of Self-Love, Healing, and Transformation
Cuellar, Amanda (2020-12-18)Approaches to the critical theory advanced by Chicana scholar Gloria Anzaldúa tend to focus primarily on the concept of borderlands or other concepts—such as El Mundo Zurdo, the Coatlicue State, mestiza consciousness, ... -
The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels
Raasu, Saara (2017-05-12)In this dissertation, “The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels,” I examine narratives, which demonstrate conflicts within the laissez-faire ideology. Neoliberalism presents ... -
Imagining Choctaw: Self-Imagination and Settler Colonialism
Sexton, Steven (2017-08-01)As Native American tribes work towards self-determination, they must first fully imagine who they are and who they want to become. Self-imagination, the act of conceptualizing ourselves, is requisite for self-determination. ... -
Langston University: A History of Transformative Rhetorics at Oklahoma's Only HBCU, 1960-1970
Ross, Cindy (2021-08-05)This project presents a history of rhetoric and writing instruction at Langston University, Oklahoma's only HBCU, from 1960-1970. It details the liberatory pedagogies practiced by Langston professors during the civil rights ... -
The Materiality of Disability in Animal’s People
Grunawalt, Jordan (2019-05)Metaphors are useful tools for understanding large, complicated issues, but they are inherently limiting. Particularly in a disability context, the application of metaphor relegates the material differences of a disabled ... -
NATIVE STORIES: AMERICAN INDIAN REPRESENTATION AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN RHETORIC AND LITERATURE
Burkhart, Brett Douglas (2018-05-11)ABSTRACT In this dissertation, American Indian Representation and Self-Representation in Rhetoric and Literature, I examine both positive and negative representations of American Indians in the genres of poetry, fiction, ... -
Perceptions: a peek into self-knowledge
Xu, Chenmei (2018-12-14)I am interested in exploring the nature of self as an emergent property that arises at the intersection of individuals and their cultural environments. Cultural forces provide potential resources for agency when internalized ... -
POCAHONTAS’S PERPLEXING LEGACY: NOBLE NATIVE SUBJECTIVITY AND THE INDIAN PRINCESS
Toll, Shannon (2016-05-03)In this dissertation, “Pocahontas’s Perplexing Legacy: Performing the Indian Princess,” I analyze how Native American women performed the Indian Princess identity—a Western archetype of idealized indigenous femininity that ... -
Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment
Bozarth, Hayden (2019-05-11)The goal of this paper is to discuss the historical and theoretical framework of neoliberalism through three films that place the Black body at the center of neoliberal economic and ideological systems: Sorry to Bother You ... -
The Rhetoric of Ecological Food: Environmental and Technological God Terms in Blue Apron, Soylent, and Slow Food
Lee, Haeyoung (2017-05-12)The rhetoric and language surrounding technologically and environmentally oriented food systems illustrate that what and how we eat shapes the way we think about food, ecology, and the world. Analyzing the rhetoric of ... -
Selections from The Milwaukee Tavern
Brooks, Bailey (2021-05-14)Set in Oklahoma beginning in late 1969, Elaine Russell is a young, Black closeted lesbian woman recently hired on as a reporter for a Tulsa area broadcast news station, and Wendy Webster is a young white woman who has been ... -
Subjects of Struggle: The Intensification of White Supremacy and the Fugitive Dimensions of Black Freedom in Antebellum America
Edison, Christopher (2021)In antebellum America, free and enslaved blacks struggled for imagined forms of freedom at a time when white supremacy’s governing authority intensified dramatically; the nation’s culture of danger exposed black bodies, ... -
Transversing Our borders: Decolonizing Communication Theory
Mosley, Sterlin (2015-08-14)This dissertation explores the limitations of western communication models through analyzing the western colonial philosophical assumptions which underlie theories of communication. The themes of knowledge, reality, identity, ...