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Writing in the Age of Speed
(2009)
This dissertation argues that speed characterizes the world of technology in the twenty-first century. The ideologies inherent in technologies have always been of enormous interest to historians, philosophers, and political ...
Who Shall Gainsay Our Decision? Choctaw Literary Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
(2009)
This study examines the writing of a group of young Choctaw intellectuals, the first generation of that society of American Indians to embrace literacy as a fully viable tool of discourse. Working in the pre-removal period, ...
Mixedblood Metaphors: Allegories of Native America in the Fiction of James Purdy
(2009)
"Mixedblood Metaphors" analyzes the Native American aspects of seven novels, one novella, and a few short stories by the U.S. author James Purdy (1914-2009). Purdy's engagement with indigeneity includes the creation of ...
A Return to Relationship: How Prophetic Rhetorical Strategies Energize Pedagogy
(2009)
The foundational element of the educational enterprise is the basic relationship of two human beings working collaboratively to accomplish something together that neither could accomplish alone. Faculty want to teach and ...
American Indian Composition Pedagogy: Related Histories, Dialogues, and Response Strategies
(2009)
The field of composition and rhetoric needs to invest greater time and resources into the higher educational needs of American Indian students in writing courses. Data from local and national education surveys reveals that ...
`To Be Of Use': Contemporary American Women's Poetry of Work and Workers
(2009)
In this dissertation, I examine three genres of contemporary women's poetry of work and workers: the historical long poem, the lyric poem, and the hybrid lyric-narrative; identify the poetic devices and imagery which are ...