Search
Now showing items 1-5 of 5
POCAHONTAS’S PERPLEXING LEGACY: NOBLE NATIVE SUBJECTIVITY AND THE INDIAN PRINCESS
(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 ...
Red State Re-Claimed: The Transrhetorical Recovery of Resistance in Oklahoma
(2016-05-13)
My project argues for critical attention to local rhetorics and characterizes Oklahoma as a unique site for understanding their impact on student writers and writing instruction. Despite rhetorical suppression from dominant ...
Making and Unmaking Masculinity: Paradigms of Success and Failure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(2016-05-13)
This project focuses on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century depictions of success and failure in prominent fiction and addresses how these concepts played a vital role in the construction of masculinity during ...
Silence of the Limbs: Dismemberment, Female Bodies, and Literary Pieces
(2016-05)
Using a postcolonial, feminist approach grounded in psychoanalysis, this dissertation focuses on novels that feature dismembered bodies of women. Some particularly profound twentieth and twenty-first century novels written ...
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 ...