Browsing by Subject "Literature, American."
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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 ... -
American conservative utopias.
(1983)An analysis of the four utopias demonstrates that conservatism has an ideology from which utopias can be formulated; that such utopias will not presume mankind to be perfect, good, equal one to another, or completely ... -
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 ... -
The art that will not die: The story-telling of Greg Sarris and Thomas King.
(2001)This study addresses the importance of the continuance of storytelling through the written medium in the understanding of one's individuality in relationship to place the community. More importantly, it investigates the ... -
Ashes Over the Southwest.
(2005)Ashes Over the Southwest was a dissertation written in fulfillment of an interdisciplinary PhD between the English and Journalism departments at the University of Oklahoma. The key areas of concentration within the departments ... -
Autofiction's Interrogation of Neoliberal Subjectivity
(2021-05-14)Recent scholarship has highlighted the affinity between autofiction—a development in the contemporary novel that incorporates a fictionalized version of the author in the work—and the neoliberal economy. Through readings ... -
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 ... -
Carlisle Floyd's "Cold Sassy Tree".
(2002)A transcript of the interview with Carlisle Floyd offering his unique insight into both the opera and his work as a composer appears in Appendix 2 of the study. -
Dakotapi women's traditions: A historical and literary critique of women as culture bearers.
(1997)A tradition is established by such early writers as Marie Louise McLaughlin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, and Ella Cara Deloria. These women writers knew early in their lives the importance of women's voices in literature. ... -
Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.
(2004)This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer ... -
A disarming laughter: The role of humor in tribal cultures. An examination of humor in contemporary Native American literature and art.
(2000)Non-Indians have long considered Indian people to possess little or no sense of humor because they trustingly accept prevailing stereotypes. This dissertation dispels this assumption by showing that humor has served, and ... -
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 ... -
Domesticity, Utopia, and Biopolitics: A Critical Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain
(2018-05-11)With the rise of first-wave feminism in United States, often characterized by the movement to secure women the right to vote and enact a voice in the public sphere, the early twentieth century indicated a clear ideological ... -
The feminist imaginary in the early writings of the poet/critic Susan Howe.
(2003)Susan Howe's early work---the poetry collected in Frame Structures, Europe of Trusts, and My Emily Dickinson, reveals the emergence of a feminist imaginary. The feminist imaginary is writing which participates in the rupture ... -
FIRST BEINGS: RELATIONSHIPS WITH NONHUMAN ANIMALS IN NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURES
(2015-04)My dissertation formulates a theory of first beings, or a way to more aptly understand human relationships with animals in Native American Literatures. It starts with a brief, selected history of the scholarship on animal ... -
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Go back the way you came :
(2000)Go Back The Way You Came by Joey Brown is an original, full-length literary novel. The novel is preceded by a critical introduction entitled Writing in the Dirt: A Look at Identity Landscape in the Work of Female Novelists ... -
Hacking away with an ax: Henry Miller and modernity.
(1999)Miller attacks his world as fundamentally flawed. The world he critiques, however, still exists. The shape it was taking in the early part of the century has only become clearer with an urban crisis and mass lay-offs of ... -
The Holy Land in transit: Colonialism and the quest for Canaan.
(2003)Through a comparative analysis of colonialism in the New World and Holy Land with attention to how politics influence literary production, I examine the process by which settler societies transform theological narratives ... -
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ...