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The spatial discourse of realism and modernism in American fiction, photography, and poetry.
(1997)
The first three chapters establish the principles and methods underlying the spatial practice of realism. In Crane's Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes, and Riis's How the Other Half Lives, ...
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. ...
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 ...
John Steinbeck :
(1977)
The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(2016)
In this dissertation, “The Legibility of Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” I examine how American authors used their literary works to comment on – and, at times, challenge – the way legibility is mobilized ...
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 ...
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 ...
"In silence I struggle": Voices of South Vietnamese living in America.
(2004)
Almost thirty years after the fall of South Vietnam, Vietnamese exiles living in America continue to struggle with their past, especially former political prisoners of the reeducation camps and their families. This ...