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Anzaldúan Theory: Frameworks of Self-Love, Healing, and Transformation
(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, ...
INCORPORATING MULTIPLE HISTORIES: THE POSSIBILITY OF NARRATIVE RUPTURE OF THE ARCHIVE IN V. AND BELOVED
(2010)
Novels of the twentieth century are grappling with the questions of identity in relation to history, but a self-reflexive history, a history that is always suspicious of itself. Alienated from cultural, religious 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 ...
Naming the violence: Women's domestic violence narratives.
(1998)
Long before our twentieth-century, psycho-socio-political understanding of domestic violence, women wrote about this form of oppression in their letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, poetry, and tracts. These highly ...
The British Image of Empire in the Victorian Novel
(2011)
In my dissertation, I analyze six novels from five British authors, beginning with William Makepeace Thackeray's <Vanity Fair> (1847) and moving on to Charlotte Bronte's <Jane Eyre>, Emily Bronte's <Wuthering Heights>, ...
REPRESENTATIONS OF MALE MEDIEVAL LITERARY CHARACTERS AND THE MEDIEVAL UNDERSTANDING OF GENDERED CHARACTERISTICS
(2019-05)
This dissertation analyzes how medieval society understood the way gender characteristics were composed and balanced in a person by applying classical theories on biology, the humors, physiognomy, and astrology to medieval ...
Irony and the self in the lyric poetry of James Merrill.
(1982)
The paper also discusses Merrill's use of form and formal poetic convention in his early lyric poetry, as well as the function of form in his two novels. His use of form suggests that it is a distancing device so that the ...
Hakaniyutu Unu Haniyu? Why Are You Making? Examining Comanche Women’s Texts Through Comanche Language and Cultural Philosophy
(2023-05-12)
One can examine Comanche women’s spoken stories in the Comanche language for
cultural and philosophical insight through the metaphor of oiling and braiding one’s hair because
oil (or yuhu, pronounced “you” in Comanche, ...
Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)
I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ...
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 ...