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Rewriting empire: Rewriting canonical British texts from a postcolonial perspective.
(2001)
In this dissertation, I examine several postcolonial texts that rewrite or revise an earlier English work. My objective here is to uncover the reasons why this is such a popular method of writing for postcolonial authors ...
Timely materialisms: Modernism, subjectivity, and language.
(2001)
In Timely Materialisms: Modernism, Subjectivity, and Language I examine some major figures in literary modernism in relationship to the critique of scientific positivism, particularly as it plays out in the human sciences. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Contextualizing Byron's homographic signature: Explorations of his other self and voice.
(2001)
The redefinition of the sodomite in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on sexuality produced a new sexual subjectivity in England. The sodomite became a more visible figure in the eighteenth century, but in ...
Female fear: The body, gender, and the burdens of beauty.
(2001)
The popularity of beauty culture is a constant reminder of the ways in which the female body is associated with fear. The decisions regarding participation in beauty culture seem to revolve around the fear-inspired need ...
Is there anybody out there? Toward an audience-oriented writing pedagogy.
(2001)
In chapter one I explore the history of audience as a theoretical construct within rhetorical and composition studies. I argue that James Porter's work in particular has caused audience to be conceived of in a managerial ...
Alterity and hybridity in Anglophone postcolonial literature: Ngugi, Achebe, p'Bitek and Nwapa.
(2001)
Chapter 2 also finds similarities between Petals of Blood and Anthills of the Savannah. It explores the ramifications of Westernization, and the role of politics in the postcolonial nation/state. Characters' sociolects are ...